The Dark Origin & History of St. Valentine's Day !

The Dark Origin & History of St. Valentine's Day !

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[khyrshcandicedelrosario]

valentines day means lust [ one of the most deadliest sins ]

[valeriacustis]

I read in a BOOK OF SEVEN SEALS ALMANAC a book that a relative fought for back at the time of 1992 and without anybody steering anyone anywhere.... we learned from this book that the story went like THERE WAS A KINGDOM THAT HAD A KING THAT WAS HOMOSEXUAL AND AFTER SEXING WITH ANY MAN THAT WANTED TO GO WITH HIM.... he wanted a man named ST. VALENTINE. St. Valentine did not want to join everybody else and having sexual relations with this king... because of this the king asked to have relations with him one more time and when St. Valentine said no the king had him captured and murdered extracting his heart out and eating the heart. I have heard several stories but this one that I read is not in existance in utube or online... anywhere... so the truth must be what I read because with time after time this is still happening in society today .... and right up to today.

[Oscar.Carmona]

Thank you. Can you list references / sources for this information. Tku

[LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat]

Of Course There's also "be my Valentine" but Children have no Idea that these are meant for the Opposite Sex, Yeah it gets a bit Muddled for kids, Really it should be an ADULT Holiday, AND MEANT FOR LOVERS.

[markherron]

Saint Gelasius I the third 🥉 BLACK 🖤 Pope created Valentine's Day 💖 Blessings and Hugs

[JacklynSilva-nx]

The song is from eminence in the shadow

[stanross]

Morel of the story, don't go against Rome!

[._Media]

I do not know "Valentine's day" only Saint Valentine's day.

[kavikv.d.hexenholtz]

Perhaps the most difficult aspect of researching the origin of holidays, is sifting through all the data and separating what is historical _fact_ from the myth, legend, and religious paranoia of what is historical _fiction._

Many of these ill- researched ‘’facts’, suppositions, and assumptions concerning the supposed origins of many holidays have been repeated for so long, they have essentially become accepted as truth. One can find these asserted ‘facts’ in everything ranging from various educational websites, to entries in dictionaries and encyclopedias, and even in (some) scholarly articles.

What we find after close examination and scrutiny, however, is that the accepted origin of many holidays comes from the latter (historical fiction), rather than the former (historical fact).

With respect to the Lupercalia-Valentine’s connection, most scholars would argue that there is absolutely no connection between two whatsoever.

Lupercalia was celebrated from the 13th to the 15th of February. But here’s the thing - Lupecalia was a very local thing; it was held almost exclusively in Rome. There are only scant references to it being held anywhere else. It was not a Roman Empire-wide celebration; thus, could not have possibly been the seeding of some sort of “proto-Valentine’s Day” across Europe. Further, there are no historical records of Lupercalia being celebrated more recent than the end of the 5th century.

The purpose of Lupercalia was thought to be to cleanse the city (Rome) of evil spirits and usher in the spring.

What is known about Lupercalia is that it started with an act of sacrifice. Priests of the god Lupercus, called the Luperci, would take off their clothes and slaughter 2 goats and a dog in the Lupercal, the cave that Roman legend held to have been the location where city founders Romulus and Remus were nursed by a wolf. After the animals were sacrificed, the Luperci would then cut the goat’s skin into strips and run around the Palatine Hill in Rome, striking women with them.

One plausible reason for this was because Lupercalia ushered in the spring, the mating season for many animals, the festival was thought to enable or facilitate fertility. If you were struck by a Lupercus, one of the priests, it was considered that you would give birth to more children. The whipping/beating was not sadistic in nature, but rather a symbolic “beating”.

It has also been suggested that a plausible theory for the whipping was that it served as an initiation, as ritualized “sexual play” that marked a boy’s transition into adulthood. There is even evidence that the Romans themselves were puzzled by the naked priests’ behavior.

Mosaics and reliefs from the period depicted instances of women, sometimes stripped naked, accepting the blows — which is unsurprising given the sexual aspect of the festival.

One *presumed* aspect of the festival that seems to prevail in many modern descriptions is the idea that there would have been a matchmaking lottery of sorts, which supposedly featured girls writing their names on paper that would be drawn from a box by boys, and the couples would be paired up. This supposition is often cited as further evidence of the connection between the ancient festival and Valentine’s Day.

There is, however, absolutely zero historical records that suggest boys being paired randomly with girls for participation in the ritual. Indeed, most scholars agree that the concept that Lupercalia featured girls writing their names on paper that would be drawn from a box by boys is likely an 18th-century invention.

The earliest attested historical record of the Lupercalia comes from the 3rd century BCE, while the last record was from the end of the 5th century CE — around the same time Pope Gelasius I made February 14 into a day that would honor the Christian martyr Saint Valentine.

At no point however does Gelasius speak of compromise, or of adapting any pagan customs. Even though they weren’t far apart chronologically, the supposed symbolic overlap between the two took centuries more to develop, as Valentine’s Day hadn’t yet acquired the romantic meaning it has today. In the early church, this would have been a solemn celebration; not the holiday it is today. Indeed, it is quite possible that Gelasius was partly responsible for Lupercalia’s decline.

Without this ritual at the Roman festival, there appears to be little correlation between the Lupercalia and Valentine’s Day. Further, though there is a calendar overlap, there is zero historical evidence to suggest that one was replaced by another. It is vitally important when writing about traditions to remember that there are only 365 days in the year ... calendar overlap, when it occurs, does not equate to significance.

Most mainstream historians assert that Valentine’s Day and romance became associated with each other only in the late 14th century. That’s a pretty huge gap between the late 1300’s and the end of Lupercalia in the 400’s. A thousand year gap where nothing resembling Lupercalia or romance and Valentine’s Day is historically recorded.

The association between Valentine’s Day and romance It is thought to have arisen specifically because of the popularity of a few Geoffrey Chaucer poems, namely, "Parliament of Foules" and “The Complaint of Mars” which both associated Valentine’s Day and romance. At the time of Chaucer's writing, February 14 also happened to be considered the first day of spring in Britain, because it was the beginning of birds' mating season—perfectly appropriate for a celebration of affection. In addition, this was also the time of a concept known as “courtly love” in Europe.

It would seem, under closer examination, that a supposed connection between Valentine’s Day and the Roman Lupercalia lies solely within the realm of some very wishful thinking.

The idea that Christian holidays are ‘pagan’ in origin actually comes from die-hard Protestant fundamentalists in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. One particularly influential writer was Alexander Hislop (1807-1865), a minister for the Free Church of Scotland who published a pamphlet in 1853 titled _The Two Babylons._ In this pamphlet, Hislop claimed that Roman Catholicism is really nothing more than re-branded Babylonian paganism and that all the holidays associated with Catholicism are actually ancient Babylonian religious festivals in honor of the heathen gods. Hislop was a zealot, vehemently anti-Catholic, and a crank whose ideas had almost no factual basis whatsoever, but his work became extremely influential among Protestant fundamentalists. It is from Hislop that the concept of many holidays tying back to Nimrod originate.

[kimberlyryan]

All well celebrated holidays have grim bloody pasts! Jesus' birth is a celebration of His impending death. Easter is no better! The ancient christians are the one's who were converted to follow Jesus and they wanted to bring salvation to their friends. So they made the holidays more loving and worthy of being a christian holiday.

[theresatraugott]

Saint valentine died on this day so it is his feast day !!!!