Valentine’s Day in Portugal By Cristina da Costa Brookes, in News · 12-02-2021 01:00:00 · 1 Comments
The 14 February, which is Valentine’s Day, is known as Dia do São Valentim, or more commonly as Dia dos Namorados in Portugal.
It is a time to celebrate love and a legend with tradition, but where does Valentine’s day come from and what traditions do the Portuguese have when celebrating this day of love?
It was in the third century that the Roman Emperor Claudius II lived. He was obsessed with creating for the Empire an ever greater and stronger army, therefore, he forbade marriages, so that the young soldiers who left for the battles would not create strong family ties. It is said that a Christian priest, named Valentine, was among those who did not agree with this order and who would have, in absolute se
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Who Was St. Valentine?
By Benito Cereno/Feb. 2, 2021 10:50 am EDT
In much of the world, the day most associated with romantic love is February 14, the Feast of Saint Valentine or, as it is more commonly known, Valentine s Day. We celebrate it by wearing red, eating chalky hearts with pseudo-romantic messages on them, and begrudgingly handing out cheap pieces of card stock with Transformers on them to every kid in the class. But how did we get here? Who is the Saint Valentine that we remember (kind of) each year by putting unnecessary pressure on ourselves to be romantic?
Well, no one really knows. As the Catholic Encyclopedia explains, the name Saint Valentine could refer to any one of three different martyrs who died on February 14 about whom very little else is known. The first Saint Valentine was a priest in Rome, and the second was a bishop elsewhere in Italy, and these two allegedly different people both lived in the latter half of the third century and were both buried on