TRUE MEANING OF VALENTINE'S DAY (ENGLISH)
It's Valentine's Day today!!!!
As it is known, it's a day which lovers express their love each other. There are many ways to celebrate in all over the world!!
In Japan, women give chocolates to men.
Women give chocolates to a man who they want to express their love. On the other hand, it's also becoming an obligation for many women to give chocolates to all male co-workers. This is known as giri-choko, from the words giri ("obligation"), and choko ("chocolate").
To tell the truth, this culture has made up by chocolate company!!!!
Then, do you know the true meaning of the St Valentine's Day??
St Valentine's Day is named after early Christian martyr, Valentine.
During 200 A.D. the Roman Empelor Claudius II prohibited young men from marrying. He surpposedly did this to grow his army, believing that married men did not make for good soldiers.
Valentine defied him and was secretly encouraging young lovers to get married and performed marrige ceremonies.
Claudius II put him in the prison when he realized what Valentine had been doing.
Even in the prison, Valentine kept sharing about God's love to the people. During imprisonment, he fell in love with a jailor's blind daughter.
The jailor requested Valentine to heal her eyes. Through his faith, the daughter was miraculously restored. Seeing that, Her father and family believed in God's healing and became Christian. However, Claudius II wasn't happy and Valentine's got executed at the end..
Just before his execution, he expressed his feelings for her in the most romantic manner by writing a love letter in which he had ended the note by writing, "From your Valentine"
Valentine ended up his life on the day, Febraury 14th.
I want you to remember something important.......Valentine who sacrificed his life to people to tell about God's love and expressed his feelings to the one he loved.... Let's remember him and celebrate love!!!



























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