The Legends Of Valentine's Day
February 14 is Valentine's is celebrated as a lovers' holiday today,with the giving of candy,flowers,or other gifts between couples in ntine's Day has roots in several different legends that have found their way to us through the ages.
In Rome it's said that it originated in 5th Century as a tribute to ntine,a Catholic bishop.
For eight hundred years prior to the establishment of Valentine's Day,the Romans had practiced a pagan celebration in mid-February commemorating young men's rite of passage to the god celebration featured a lottery in which young men would draw the names of teenage girls from a girl assigned to each young man in that manner would be his female companion during the remaining year.
In an effort to do away with the pagan Gelasius ordered a slight change in the ead of the names of young women,the box would contain the names of men and women were allowed to draw from the box,and the game was to emulate the ways of the saint they drew during the rest of the less to say,many of the young Roman men were not too pleased with the rule Changes.
Instead of the pagan god Lupercus,the Church looked for a suitable patron saint of love to take his found an appropriate choice in Valentine,who,in AD270 had been beheaded 3 by Emperor Claudius.
Claudius had determined that married men made poor he banned marriage from his Valentine would secretly marry young men that came to Claudius found out about Valentine,he first tried to convert him to Valentine reversed the strategy,trying instead to convert he failed,he was stoned and beheaded.
During the days that Valentine was imprisoned,he fell in love with the blind daughter of his love for her,and his great faith,managed to miraculously heal her from her blindness before his re he was taken to his death,he signed a farewell message to her,"From your Valentine."The phrase has been used on his day ever since.
Although the lottery for women had been banned by the church,the mid-February holiday in commemoration of ntine was stilled used by Roman men to seek the affection of became a tradition for the men to give the ones they admired handwritten messages of affection,containing Valentine's name.
Another Valentine was an Italian bishop who lived at about the same time,AD was imprisoned because he secretly married couples,contrary to the laws of the Roman legends say he was burned at the stake.
情人節的傳說
2月14日是情人節。今天它被人們作爲情侶的節日來慶祝,給的糖果、鮮花、或其他禮物情侶之間的愛。情人節起源於不同的傳說,我們找到了多年。
在羅馬錶示,它向ntine起源於5世紀,天主教主教。
八百年情人節,前羅馬人曾在2月中旬練習異教慶典紀念年輕男子成人禮的盧帕克斯神。這項慶典的特點是進行抽籤,讓年輕的男子從盒子裏抽取十幾歲少女的名字。通過這種方式分配給每一位年輕男子的女孩將是他那一年的女伴。
爲了的異教徒的節日。羅馬教皇蓋拉西厄斯命令彩票活動必須一個細微的變化。年輕女性的名字,而是框將包含聖徒的名字。男性和女性被允許從盒子裏,和遊戲是模仿方式的聖德魯在今年剩下的時間裏。不用說,羅馬的許多年輕人不太喜歡這種規則的改變。
來代替異教的盧帕克斯神的教會尋找一位更適合的愛的守護神來代替他。他們發現一個適當的選擇在情人節,克勞迪亞斯王Valentine是斬首3。
克勞迪亞斯王堅信已婚男人是無用的戰士。所以他在他的`王國內禁止結婚。但是情人節會祕密嫁給那些來找他的年輕人。當克勞迪斯發現情人節時,他第一次嘗試將他異教信仰。但情人節逆轉的策略,而不是將克勞迪斯。當他失敗時,他是用石頭打死,斬首。
在情人節被囚禁的日子裏,他愛上了盲人他的獄卒的女兒。他對她的愛,他的偉大的信仰,竟然奇蹟般地治好了她的眼睛在他的死亡。他被帶到他去世之前,他簽署了一份告別消息給她,“從你的情人。”這句話用在他的一天。
雖然抽籤得女人的活動已經被教會禁止,2月中旬假日紀念ntine羅馬的男人依舊利用尋求女人的愛情。它變成了一個傳統的男人給的他們欽佩的感情手寫消息,包含瓦倫丁的名字。
另一個情人節是一個意大利主教住大約在同一時間,公元200年。他被監禁,因爲他偷偷已婚夫婦,與羅馬皇帝的法律。有一些傳說說他是被綁在火刑柱上燒死的。
