THE
COMMERCIALISM OF ST.VALENTINE'S DAY
Were
you up early on Saturday morning, waiting for the postman?
Are you looking forward to being wined and dined in
a romantic restaurant
this evening? Or do you just ignore St Valentine’s Day?
We heard this week that the average male will spend £135
on his girlfriend – well we wondered if the real figure was
higher – or lower! So we went out to the centre of Belfast
on your behalf to find out what we’re spending on the big
day.
But how did it all start - St.Valentine himself dates back to
269 AD when as a priest at the court of Claudius II in Rome, he
helped
the Christian martyrs and secretly married couples, and for this
kind deed Saint Valentine was condemned to be beaten to death with
clubs and to have his head cut off. Not very romantic! He was martyred
on the 14th day of February.
But it wasn’t till the 1800’s that the first cards
were sent by a Miss Esther Howland, and yes you guessed it, in
America!
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