To start with, Valentine’s Day comes from the legend of the priest Valentine in the second half of the third century after Jesus Christ. The emperor Claude the second the gothic had abolished the marriage’s sacrament. This emperor thought that the married was bad soldiers because of their dependence to the family. The clergyman Valentine, him, married couples secretly, but one day, he was unmasked and arrested. He was beheaded in Rome on the fourteenth February Two hundred sixty eight. Since the fifth century, he is considered like the saint of lovers.

Now, I will talk about the customs of Valentine’s Day. So, in Valentine’s Day, lovers in the couples, exchange their gifts to show their love. The gifts can be chocolates, roses or letters.
The symbols of Valentine’s Day are Cupid, hearts, red roses and birds who are the messengers of love.

In the world, there are many different practices. In Japan, for exemple, the woman gives chocolates to the man and can require a gift forty times more expensive that the chocolates. In China, however, there is’nt Valentine’s Day, but a day who resemble. The name is qǐqiǎo jié, called too Chinese Valentine’s Day or the day of the double seven because of happened in the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. In Bresil we don’t talk about Valentine’s Day but about the lover’s day, it’s not celebrated on the fourteenth of February but on the twelfth of June. Finaly, in Colombia, Valentine’s Day is celebrated on the third Saturday of September and is called the day of love and