Détail de l’événement
February 14 corresponds, in the Roman religion, to the Lupercalia, faun festivals taking place from February 13 to 15.The real origin of this festival is attested
Détail de l’événement
February 14 corresponds, in the Roman religion, to the Lupercalia, faun festivals taking place from February 13 to 15.
The real origin of this festival is attested to the 14th century in Great Britain, which was still Catholic, where Valentine’s Day on February 14 was celebrated as a lovers’ festival, because it was thought that birds chose this day to mate.
Remaining alive in the Anglo-Saxon world, this festival then spread across the European continent in recent times. But who was SAINT-VALENTINE ?
It is said that Valentine was a Roman who lived in the 3rd century under the emperor Claudius II, nicknamed Claudius the Cruel.
Struggling to recruit his soldiers, Claudius then said to himself that the homes, wives and children of his men were the cause, and thus took the decision to prohibit marriages.
However, one priest continued to celebrate marriages: the priest Valentin.
When the emperor found out, he immediately had him arrested and sentenced him to death. While Valentine was in prison, he met the daughter of his guard who was blind. The story goes that just before being beheaded, Valentine restored his beloved’s sight by sending her a little note signed “Your Valentine”.
The story is nice, but it is only a legend.
In 498, the pope decided to set Valentine’s Day on February 14.
Three Valentines had then been selected by him. Saint Valentine, beheaded in 270 AD; another contemporary Valentine from the 3rd century, Bishop Valentine of Terni; as well as a third Valentine, of African origin, but about whom little is known.
In any case, on this February 14, 2025, may the lovers of this world believe themselves to be alone, but two !