Today marks the day of my FOURTH favorite holiday, Valentines day!!! (Christmas, 4th of July and Easter all preceeding)Yes I am a hopeless romantic with a love of cute little cliche things and the color red too.
If you're wondering where the origin of Valentine's day came from then you are in luck because your very own personal "this day in history" reporter is about to tell ya (listen up!)....
So there was this really mean guy named Claudius the Cruel of Rome. He believed that the reason his Roman army wasn't strong was because men were speding too much time with their families and wives and were too fixated on the idea of marriage, so he decided to ban all marriages in Rome. Well homeboy, St. Valentine, didn't agree with that, so he continued to conduct marriages in secrecy. He obviously was found conducting these practices so he was sentenced to execution. While in jail, legend has it that he he wrote a letter to the jailer's daughter who had become his friend that said "From your valentine." From there on, February 14th has been know as Valentine's day (There you have it!)
So no, Valentine's day is not the massacre in Chicago conducted by the mob during the climax of the prohibition era that supposedly put a curse on the Chicago cubs. (As a Cubs fan, February 14th, 1929 was a sad day in history, and like Claudius, Al Capone wasn't really into romance either).
I have never really understood why someone can hate today. Just because you're single and John Hughes just so happened to not take part in directing your love life, doesn't mean you should take it out on V-day!! Wanna know why? I'll tell ya! Because despite what you think, Jesus loves you. "We loved each other because He loved us first." 1 John 4:19. So refer to today all you want as "Singles awareness day," and I'll refer to it as Valentine's day, but just know that no matter what you think, you ARE loved. :)
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