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Valentine ... History, Legends and Curiosities.

So gentle and so honest it seems

my lady when she greets others, that every language
Deven trembling outline
eyes and not the dare to look.
She goes, hearing praise,
graciously clothed with humility;
and seems to be something coming
miracle from heaven to earth to show.
Mostrasi so pleasing to him who seeks
for giving eyes a sweetness to the core,
that 'no ntender the people who can not test:
and seems to be moved from his lip
a gentle spirit, full of love,
al'anima saying that goes: He sighs.

Poetry of Dante Alighieri 1293


The popularity of Valentine's Day has its origins in Anglo-Saxon countries (England, Scotland, Ireland) where the cult of the saint of love quickly asserted itself. In France and England spread the legend that tells of the custom of Valentine's Day to give some flowers to boys and girls who passed through his garden. Since then, it happened that engaged couples and couples about to marry you were marked by the saint, so that soon he was forced to set aside a day for the blessing of the overall wedding.

Photo 1920

the appointed day was Feb. 14. The legend spread throughout the world and February 14 became one of the most popular festivals of the year.

History and Legend

L 'origin of Valentine's Day is the Catholic Church's attempt to end a popular pagan rite of fertility. For the ancient Romans the month of February was considered the time when we are preparing the arrival of spring, given the season of rebirth. He began the rites of purification: the houses were clean, there is sprinkled salt and a particular farina.Verso half of the month began the celebration of Lupercalia (of which kept the wolves away from cultivated fields). Since the fourth century AC pagan Romans paid homage, with a unique annual ritual, the god Lupercus. The Luperi, the order of priests involved in this cult, went to the cave where, according to legend, the wolf had nursed Romulus and Remus, and here were making propitiatory sacrifices.

Cupid and Psyche - Louvre Museum - Antonio Canova

Along the streets was shed the blood of some animals as a sign of fertility, but the real ritual consisted in a kind of lottery of love. The names of women and men who worshiped this God were placed in an urn and appropriately mescolati.Quindi a child chose at random a few couples who have lived for a year in intimacy, so that the fertility rite was over. The next year would then be started again with other couples. The precursors of the Church fathers, determined to put an end to this practice licentious, they tried a saint "of Love" to replace the immoral Lupercus. In 496 AD Pope Gelasius canceled this pagan festival and began the cult of St. Valentine, a bishop who had been martyred some two hundred years earlier. Valentine was born in Terni in the year 175 AD became the patron saint of love and patron of lovers from around the world. Valentino dedicated his life to the Christian community and the city of Terni, where the persecution raged against the followers of Jesus

Relics of the saint

His relics were collected and buried on a hill of Terni, where he soon rose a church for the bishop and martyr Valentine, later sanctified.

Valentine

Abriola, the country of Valentine

It could be called the land of love, as the patron saint is the very famous Valentine's Day, celebrated every year on February 14: Abriola rises 957 meters sea \u200b\u200blevel, in the heart of the mountains Lucan, perched on a rocky promontory and surrounded by green trees in spring and a blanket of white snow in the long winter.

Abriola

The town was a stronghold of Arab, enlarged by the Swabians and then by Anjou, conquered the Lombards at the end of the ninth century, to later become the fief of Cayman Capaccio.

entitled The Cathedral Church Santa Maria Maggiore, guards inside the trunk of S. Valentino el'urna containing part of the relics of the martyr. Even in a niche above the altar is preserved baroque statue of the Madonna di Monteforte, wooden work from the late thirteenth century.

The cult of St. Valentino, patron saint of the city, Abriola belongs to a tradition rooted popular and religious. His worship goes back to the legend that the Holy pausing during his trip to Puglia, in a time of great famine in the country did get wagons full of grain committed his ring, thus allowing the residents Abriola to be saved.

During the festival, which of course falls on February 14, aspects of folk and religious mix in the respect for tradition. Start the morning with the liturgical celebration and the procession through the streets of the town, the statue of the Holy Martyr carried by the faithful continue Then in the evening with the staging of large bonfire around which many residents and visitors eat traditional food and local wine, singing popular songs, until you turn off the last bonfire.

Traditions

Valentine Greeting Card 1887

Especially in countries of Anglo-Saxon culture, and for imitation elsewhere, the most characteristic feature of the feast of St. Valentine is the exchange of Valentine cards of love is often shaped in the form of hearts stylized or according to other themes typical of the popular depiction of romantic love. In the nineteenth century, this tradition has fueled the industrial production and large-scale marketing of greeting cards dedicated to this event.

The Greeting Card Association estimates that each year are dispatched on Feb. 14 about a billion greeting cards, a number that ranks second in this event, as the number of tickets purchased and shipped after Christmas.

Post Card 1906

use to send "Valentine" in Anglo-Saxon world goes back at least to the nineteenth century. From the middle of the century in the United States some entrepreneurs like Esther Howland began producing Valentine's Day on an industrial scale, in turn, was inspired by a tradition Howland before originating in the United Kingdom. It was the mass production of greeting cards to boost the marketing of the anniversary and at the same time, its penetration into the culture popolare.Il anniversary of the commercialization process continued in the second half of the twentieth century, especially from Member USA. The tradition of love tickets started to become secondary to the exchange of gifts like boxes of chocolates, flowers, or jewelry.

ITALY. Curiosity


"If you love someone to Verona." E 'is the slogan of Valentine's Day in the city of Romeo and Juliet, the most romantic of Italy. An opportunity for all lovers, spend a few days in the romantic city of Romeo, in his welcoming hotel, dinner in its restaurant full of atmosphere.


Throughout the weeks leading up to February 14, the city streets are decorated with hearts ricopropono the red lanterns, the atmosphere tinged with a soft spots. Heart-shaped balloons are distributed to passers-by.

Piazza dei Signori Piazza Bra

Throughout the week the streets, squares and places of the center shekespeariani host concerts, exhibitions, theater performances and events, culminating on Feb. 14, with the awards ceremony at the House of Juliet, the most beautiful love letters written by heroin shakespearina worldwide. Award organized by the Club of Juliet.