10 Interesting Myths About Valentine Day and Story of St. Valentine

Love is the only thing in the world which makes us happy. We all love to celebrate this day with our loved one and express our feelings of love by sending best valentines day messages, SMS, greetings exchange cards, candy, gifts or flowers with our special Valentine to fulfil the Joy of the day.

And on this auspicious day, that is Valentine’s day we will be telling you some interesting myths about Valentine Day!

As we all know the day of romance we all call Valentine’s Day is named for a Christian martyr and dates back to the 5th century, but has origins in the Roman holiday.

There is a short time when love was illegal and the best crime was to check out your heart and soul. St.Valentine put everything at risk to succeed, even winning the heart of his jailer’s princess and One tale of St. Valentine is the fact that he was caught and beheaded for marrying Religious lovers or Roman military to Christians.

Another is the fact that the sooner Valentine was imprisoned for refusing to convert to Paganism, and through his jail prayers, he healed the jailer’s blind girl. On his execution, he supposedly kept her a letter that was authorized “Your Valentine” – that was the first ROMANTIC DAYS CELEBRATION card. No information exists to aid these or the other legends associated with St. Valentine, or even validate when they could have occurred.

But the triumph was his, for real love never dies!

Here are some Facts

1) The Italian city of Verona, where Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet.
2)Christian Church Choose Mid February to celebrate Valentine.
3)First Valentine Greeting appeared in the 15th century.
4)Women purchase almost 85 percent of all gifts on this Feast.
5)More than 500 millions of roses are sold in the world.