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Dear blog readers, its valentines tml.. heres a lil something i've done to embrace the occassion..hah, i shall post smth joyous in de conjuntion of the series of sad happenings for me.here goes...


The History of Saint Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day started in the time of the Roman Empire. In ancient Rome, February 14th was a holiday to honour Juno. Juno was the Queen of the Roman Gods and Goddesses. The Romans also knew her as the Goddess of women and marriage. The following day, February 15th, began the Feast of Lupercalia.

The lives of young boys and girls were strictly separate. However, one of the customs of the young people was name drawing. On the eve of the festival of Lupercalia the names of Roman girls were written on slips of paper and placed into jars. Each young man would draw a girl's name from the jar and would then be partners for the duration of the festival with the girl whom he chose. Sometimes the pairing of the children lasted an entire year, and often, they would fall in love and would later marry.

Under the rule of Emperor Claudius II Rome was involved in many bloody and unpopular campaigns. Claudius the Cruel was having a difficult time getting soldiers to join his military leagues. He believed that the reason was that roman men did not want to leave their loves or families. As a result, Claudius cancelled all marriages and engagements in Rome. The good Saint Valentine was a priest at Rome in the days of Claudius II. He and Saint Marius aided the Christian martyrs and secretly married couples, and for this kind deed Saint Valentine was apprehended and dragged before the Prefect of Rome, who condemned him to be beaten to death with clubs and to have his head cut off.
Here is a story of saint valentines in his prison cell...


Folds of sun light creeped through the square window, no larger then the size of one's palm. There he laid, ontop of the mass of dried hay as a rudimentary bedding where his body rested.

"Father.. wake up.. I've brought something for you...."a thin voice echoed through the wallows ..

A plate of scrimped food was shoved into the prison cell via the gap between the floor and the wooden door.

"good morning Julia, how are u today?"Croaked Saint Valentine, had he not hydrated more .. he's lucky to only have a dry throat.. had he had any little more hydration... he would have just died.

"valentinus... does God really hear our prayers?" Julia asked from the other side of the door.


"Yes, my child, He hears each one."



"Do you know what I pray for every morning and every night? I pray that I might see. I want so much to see everything you've told me about!I want to love and be together with the man i love.... " Julia continued


"God does what is best for us if we will only believe in Him," Valentinus said.


"Yes, i have my faith in god and belive in him with all my might."Julia cried, tears flowing down her cheeks as she hold saint valentines hand...

"Praise be to god' he said..

On the eve of his death Valentinus wrote a last note to Julia, urging her to stay close to God. He signed it, "From your Valentine."



He suffered martyrdom on the 14th day of February, about the year 270. At that time it was the custom in Rome, a very ancient custom, indeed, to celebrate in the month of February the Lupercalia, feasts in honour of a heathen god. On these occasions, amidst a variety of pagan ceremonies, the names of young women were placed in a box, from which they were drawn by the men as chance directed.


The pastors of the early Christian Church in Rome endeavoured to do away with the pagan element in these feasts by substituting the names of saints for those of maidens. And as the Lupercalia began about the middle of February, the pastors appear to have chosen Saint Valentine's Day for the celebration of this new feaSt. So it seems that the custom of young men choosing maidens for valentines, or saints as patrons for the coming year, arose in this way.


So,ay love birds.. do what u must do.. singles don't fret.. ur not alone.. hiack.. perharps u could ask me out tml? no gays pls.. Lol