Who sent the first valentines card?

Answer 1

It is said that St. Valentine sent a valentine to the Jailer's Daughter and he signed it "From Your Valentine"

Answer 2

Saint Valentine was the first man who celebrate valentine first.

Saint Valentine himself is believed to have been Valentinius, a candidate for Bishop of Rome in 143, and although he did not start the tradition of Valentine's Day, he is celebrated as the patron saint of love.

The feast of St Valentine was first declared by Pope Gelasius I to be on 14 February 496. It was declared in memory of the martyrdom of St Valentine, a priest at Rome in the days of Claudius II. St Valentine and Saint Marius helped Christian martyrs and secretly married Christian couples who were being persecuted under Claudius II's reign, and for this act Valentine was apprehended, condemned and executed in 270 A.D.

Originally, Valentine's Day had nothing to do with celebrating romantic love. The first known recorded association of St Valentine's Day with romantic love was in the 14th century in England and France, where February 14 came to be recognised traditionally the day on which birds paired off to mate. This is probably due to the poem Parlement of Foules (1382) by Geoffrey Chaucer.

By the 17th century, it had become common for lovers to exchange notes on this day and to call each other "Valentines", and from there it gradually grew into the extended celebration it has become today.

Answer 3

The Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were martyred. One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine's actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death.

Other stories suggest that Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons, where they were often beaten and tortured. According to one legend, an imprisoned Valentine actually sent the first "valentine" greeting himself after he fell in love with a young girl-possibly his jailor's daughter-who visited him during his confinement. Before his death, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter signed "From your Valentine," an expression that is still in use today.

Answer 4

According to one legend, St. Valentine was the first person to send a valentine card. The legend states that he was imprisoned at the time. He sent the valentine to a young girl whom he fell in love with.

Answer 5

Valentine's Day goes as far back as 270 AD and came from celebrations from ancient Christian and Romans. One legend tells that the holiday began from the Roman festival of Lupercalia, a fertility celebration, but when Christianity took over pagan holidays were renamed for early Christians martyrs. In 496 AD the pope turned Lupercalia into a Christian feast day. He proclaimed that it was to honor of Saint Valentine a Roman martyr from the 3rd century. According to the Catholic encyclopedia there were three early Christian saints by the name of Valentine. One was a priest in Rome and another was a bishop in Terri. Nothing is known about the third except he died in Africa. The story of Saint Valentine is about a bishop who held secret marriage ceremonies of soldiers in Claudius II who banned marriage for young men. He felt that marriage made men weak and Valentine was arrested for performing the marriages and excecuted. Thus, February 14 became a day for lovers and was annually observed by young Romans. In medieval France and England it was believed that birds mated on February 14 and the image of birds became the symbol of lovers in poems dedicated to the day. By the 18th century Valentines Day had become common in England and handmade Valentine cards, ribbons, and hearts were created. This spread to the American colonies, but it wasn't until 1840 that greeting cards were sold in the United States.

Answer 6

it was sent by saint valentine and it was sent around the era of the Roman Empire

Answer 7

St. Valentine

Answer 8

a prist named valentine