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Valentine’s Day Images For Students, Teenagers: Valentine’s Day, also known as Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is a celebration observed on February 14 each year. It is celebrated in many countries around the world, although it is not a public holiday in most of them. Here we have collection of images displaying how people celebrate Valentine’s Day.
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Various business organisations have offered huge discounts on their products on the occasion. Restaurants have also started special offers and discounts for the couples visiting them on Valentine’s Day. Many restaurants around the world have prepared various types of mouth watering delicacies on the occasion to observe the day.
All the state governments have beefed up security in parks, shopping malls and other public places to avoid any unfortunate incidents which happened in the past years. Police personnel will also be deployed in plain clothes at various public places and restaurants to avoid any issues on the occasion.
Valentine’s Day occurs every February 14. In 2024, Valentine’s Day falls on a Wednesday. Across the United States and in other places around the world, candy, flowers and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine.
While some believe that Valentine’s Day is celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of Valentine’s death or burial—which probably occurred around A.D. 270—others claim that the Christian church may have decided to place St. Valentine’s feast day in the middle of February in an effort to “Christianize” the pagan celebration of Lupercalia. Celebrated at the ides of February, or February 15, Lupercalia was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus.
To begin the festival, members of the Luperci, an order of Roman priests, would gather at a sacred cave where the infants Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were believed to have been cared for by a she-wolf or lupa. The priests would sacrifice a goat, for fertility, and a dog, for purification. They would then strip the goat’s hide into strips, dip them into the sacrificial blood and take to the streets, gently slapping both women and crop fields with the goat hide. Far from being fearful, Roman women welcomed the touch of the hides because it was believed to make them more fertile in the coming year. Later in the day, according to legend, all the young women in the city would place their names in a big urn. The city’s bachelors would each choose a name and become paired for the year with his chosen woman. These matches often ended in marriage.
