2. Summary
• What's Saint Valentine's day?
• Why in 14th of February?
• Where do people celebrate it?
• How do people celebrate it?
• Most popular love phrases
3. What's Saint Valentine's day?
In 14th of February it's a special day for
people who is in love. You can enjoy the
whole day with your boyfriend or
girlfriend, you can prepare something
special for she or he, or, if your love
doesn't know you love him or her, tell it.
4. Why in 14th of February?
Valentine was a priest in Rome in the
third century, when Claudio II was
the emperor.
Claudio thought that man who were
married, were worse for being
soldiers, and he ban the marriage.
Valentine, who was in favour of the
christian marriage, continued
marrying young people who were in
love.
5. When Claudio knew that, ordered to
take him to the jail. Asterius, who
was the men mandated to took
Valentine to the jail, decided to give
an opportunity to him, his Daughter,
called Julia, was blind. Valentine
returned her the eyesight. In 14th of
February of 270 Valentine was
assassinated. Julia cried and cried,
but there weren't tears that run in
his chicks, were leaves of an
almond-tree.
6. Where and how do people
celebrate it?
In Japan, people use to climb to the top of the
Fuji mountain and touch three times the love
bell, and meanwhile it's ringing, they say three
times his love's name.
In Denmark it's usually to give some white roses
and send some cards, which are wrote with all
the vowels like points, and if she discover who
is sending this card, for Easter he have to give
her one easter egg.
7. Korean people all the
girls who are in love
must give to her love
chocolate, and a
month after, all the
boys have to give them
a present.
In Britain and in Italy
who are in love or who have a partner, and single
celebrate this day
people too. Tradition says when the single girl
people
wakes up, have to look through the window, and
the first man who she see, will marry him.
Somewhere in Britain people use to bake some
muffins or cakes.
8. Most popular love phrases
"Your heart is free,
have the courage to
follow it." – Braveheart