happy Valentines day

Happy Valentine Day....
Ever wonder how it was that Valentine day came to be...well my aunt Lucy collected info on various holidays and compiled a booklet...and this is what she found to be true...(to recap a few fun facts)_
*Evidently...its a holiday called ST. Valentine's day
*Evidently...No one is quite certain who should receive credit for this special day of friends and well 'lovers' to expre appreciation and send well wishes
*Saint Valentine is a name given to the three different martys whose feast day falls on February 12 one of these was a priest living in th 1700's by the name of Valentine. He was put to death for preaching about Christ.
*Before his death people came appreciate Valentine because he was a preist he could secretly perform marriages for them even though the ruler Claudius and forbid men to marry for a time.
Valentine felt sorry for these unhappy men and their sweethearts, so he performed the marriage
* The reason they were forbid to marry was because This mean old ruler Claudius mentioned above thought the men would more readily join up as soldiers for his army if they were not worried about leaving wives and children behind as they went to battle.
..*another legend tells that St Valentine grew flowers and gave them to children, then while Valentine was imprisoned, these children wrote him little letters of Love. --and these letters were called 'valentines' --as one time Valentine wrote back to the child--and ended with "from your valentine:"
*Valentine was described as a most charitable person, with compassion --feeding the poor
and many other charitable acts.
* the Valentine idea (to write little cards --saying from your valentine) spread all over Europe
Valentine notes became artistic and by 1895--many cartoon or comic valentine came to being
*In modern day many school children celebrate at school, with card exchange and boxed and sometimes parties are held
*Valentine day is only second to Christmas for the holiday for the largest number of cards sent