Valentine’s Day The Valentine's Day or Valentine's Day, as is known in other countries, is a special commemorative date in which he celebrates the loving union between couples is common to exchange cards and gifts with symbolism same purpose, such as traditional boxes of chocolates. In Brazil, the date is celebrated on June 12. In Portugal also was the same until a few years, but now is the most common date is celebrated on 14 February.

he history of Valentine's Day dates back to a dark day of fasting have been in honor of St. Valentine. The association with romantic love comes after the end of the Middle Ages, during which the concept of romantic love was formulated. ishop Valentine fought against the orders of Emperor Claudius II, who had forbidden the marriage during the war believing that single men were better fighters. In addition to continue celebrating marriages, he married secretly, despite the ban of the emperor. The practice was discovered and Valentine was arrested and sentenced to death. While imprisoned, many people gave flowers and notes saying that young people still believed in love. While in prison awaiting the fulfillment of his sentence, he fell in love with the blind daughter of a jailer and miraculously restored her sight. Before leaving, Valentine wrote a farewell message to her, in which he signed as "Your Boyfriend" or "From your Valentine". Considered a martyr for the Catholic Church, the date of his death - February 14 - also marks the eve of Lupercais, annual festivals celebrated in ancient Rome in honor of Juno (the goddess of women and marriage) and Pan (mythology) (god of nature). One of the rituals of this festival was the demonstration of fertility, where the priests marched through the city hitting all women with leather straps goat to ensure fertility. History

Another version says that in the seventeenth century, British and French began to celebrate Valentine's Day as the union of Valentine's Day. The date was adopted a century after the United States, making it the Valentine's Day, and in the Middle Ages, it was said that February 14 was the first day of mating birds. So lovers of the Middle Ages used this opportunity to leave messages of love on the doorstep of his beloved. The day is now closely associated with the mutual exchange of messages of love in the form of symbolic objects. Modern symbols include the silhouette of a heart and the figure of a Cupid with wings. Begun in the nineteenth century, the practice of handwritten messages led to the exchange of greeting cards produced in mass. It is estimated that, worldwide, approximately one billion cards with romantic messages are sent each year, making this day one of the most lucrative of the year. It is also estimated that women purchase approximately 85% of all present in Brazil. The Valentine's Day was until a few decades princiapalmente a feast celebrated in Anglo-Saxon countries, but throughout the twentieth century the habit has spread to many other countries.

In Brazil, the date is celebrated on June 12 because it is the eve of June 13, Day of San Antonio, Portuguese saint with a tradition of matchmaking, probably due to his preaching about the importance of family togetherness that was countered by the heresy of the time call Catharism. Marriage - falling in the middle ages - children who generated the sect catara condemned for this because the world was intrinsically evil because, instead of being raised by a good God, was created by an evil God. The date probably appeared in the trade when the Sao Paulo publicitario John Dorio brought the idea from abroad, and presented to merchants and then was taken over by the whole Brazilian trade to reproduce the same effect as the Day of St. Valentin, equivalent in the countries of the northern hemisphere, to encourage the exchange of gifts between lovers. Data in Brazil

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