ORIGIN OF THE DAY OF SAN VALENTIN

Each year is celebrated on Valentine's Day is a special occasion to express with great enthusiasm the best wishes you have towards your partner or friends, this is already a tradition that is celebrated in many countries.
This festivity, assimilated by the Catholic Church, dates back to the third century in Rome, where a priest named Valentin opposed the order of Emperor Claudius II, who decided to prohibit the celebration of marriages for young people, considering that singles without family were better soldiers, since they had less ties and sentimental ties.
Valentin, opposed to the decree of the emperor, began to secretly celebrate marriages for young lovers (hence it became popular that Valentine is the patron of lovers).
Upon learning, Claudius II sentenced San Valentin to death on February 14, 270, alleging disobedience and rebellion. For this reason, Valentine's Day is commemorated every year.
In addition, as a curiosity, regarding the commercialization of this celebration, the first review that exists is the one pointed out by the American Esther A. Howland as the precursor of the sale of gift cards with romantic motifs and drawings of lovers that she devised and made to mid-1840s. Products that were sold for a few cents in the bookstore that his father ran in Worcester (Massachusetts) and which became a success.