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Where does Valentine’s Day come from?
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Valentine’s Day is a time when people engage themselves in the expression of love, and some use it as a time of being romantic towards their love partners. (Valentine’s day falls around late winter/early spring time).
But where did this concept of romantic love become one with the season of Valentine’s Day?
Many Christians adopted the celebration of valentine’s day from the Christian saint who was martyred on February the 14, and a feast was held in honor of his death,
but surprisingly enough this same feast today is connected to the expression of romantic desires and evil sexual pleasure among people.
Around the time of the high middle ages, Geoffrey Chaucer transformed this feast into a day of romance, where people’s sexual desires were stirred up towards each other; this is also the time when this feast started to portray the image of the tradition called court of love.
Through this tradition called court of love the noble members of this court used to secretly have sexual relationships with each other, where married couples secretly shared and cheated on their partners by having secret sexual intercourse with some body else that belongs in this court of love.
Later on in time this day of valentine also became the day when erotic desires were widely exposed and appreciated, to the extent that love letters, sharing and the exchanging of sexual partners became the center of this feast.
In Rome the small god of love and erotic called cupid with wings like an angel was also celebrated on this same day. And there is a saying that says: the god of love, cupid, was seen holding his bow shooting towards those that will engage themselves in the feast of Valentine’s Day.
By: Apostle Ngabo
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