Valentine's 
's Day Valentine , February 14, is regarded in many countries as the feast of love and friendship. Couples take the opportunity to exchange sweet words and gifts as evidence of love and red roses are the emblem of passion.
Originally feast of the Catholic Church, the day Valentine was not associated with romantic love before the Middle Ages, but with love physics. The party is now more closely associated with the mutual exchange of "love letters" or Valentines illustrated with symbols like a heart or a winged Cupid.
Upon shipment of tickets in the nineteenth century, took over the exchange of greeting cards. An estimated one billion cards are sent each year on the occasion of Valentine , a figure only beaten by the number of cards exchanged at Christmas. It is also estimated that 85% of these cards are bought by women.
Quiz Do you know the history of Valentine's ?
The feast of love is an annual tradition firmly rooted in Western societies. But do you know for example when she goes back? Or who was Saint Valentine? It's time to find out.
1. What is the Roman rite behind Valentine ?
A) Volcanalia festival in honor of the god Vulcan, the fire protective
B) The festival of Saturnalia, in honor of the god Saturn, the protector of agriculture and time
C) The Feast of Lupercalia in honor of the god Lupercus, protector of herds
2. Juno was a goddess of Roman mythology honored at this ceremony. What was his attribute?
A) She was the goddess of marriage
B) She was the goddess of desire
C) She was the goddess of love
3. Valentine was a priest in Rome. He was stoned to Rome in the third century AD. How this award was it justified?
A) He had refused to comply with the imperial cult rendered to the Emperor Claudius II
B) He married couples in secret
C) He had renounced his Christian faith.
4. During his captivity, Valentine performed a miracle that changed the life of Asterius his jailer. Which?
A) He cures sterility
B) He resurrected
C) He gave sight to the blind girl
5. Pope Gelasius I banned the Roman festival which took place February 14 in 495 and replaced by the celebration of the martyr St. Valentine. Why?
A) To honor the memory of the patron saint of lovers
B) To induce the Romans to abandon the pagan rites to Christian cults
C) To erase the memory of a party considered too decadent
6. Often represented by a winged child provided a silver bow and arrows, Cupid was a young Roman god of love. What goddess was he the son?
A) Minerva, the protectress of the family and craftsmen
B) Juno, protector of married love
C) Venus, the protectress of fertility
7. Birds are a symbol of the beginning of the breeding season. They are at the origin of a superstition that developed in France and England, the day of Valentine , the Middle Ages. What belief is it?
A) The birds had good luck in love for all unmarried girls who caught a
B) The birds were messengers carrying love letters for boyfriends
C) The girls were watching to determine the social origins of their future boyfriends
8. Which of these historical figures is famous for having written one of the most beautiful love letters known?
A) The poet Alfred de Musset
B) The poet Charles d'Orleans
C) The playwright William Shakespeare
9. Today, completing a love letter by three X means a kiss. But what was the other message of the cross in the Middle Ages?
A) It was an oath of faith on the letters
B) corresponds to a code
C) It was a secret ballot
10. during World War , authorities banned the allied soldiers to sign their letters of love by three crosses on the day of Valentine's Day. Why?
A) To confuse the enemy on the identity of the messenger
B) To prevent the spies to use this code
C) To discourage the stories of hopeless love
Correct answers
1 c) The festival of Lupercalia, in honor of the god Lupercus, protector of herds The Lupercalia festival was celebrated annually on February 15 in honor of Lupercus, god of fertility and fertility, equated with Faunus, a former Roman god of fields and shepherds. It is the origin of Valentine because it commemorated the start of the breeding season.
2. A ) She was the goddess of marriage Juno is the protector of Women and the couple's fertility and the goddess of marriage legitimate. It is celebrated simultaneously at the Lupercus Roman festival that bears his name.
3. B) It married couples in secret Valentine disobeyed Claudius II who banishes the sacrament of marriage in 268 AD. The Emperor was that the soldiers were too dependent on their families and wanted to attract a little more in the army.
4. C) He gave sight to the blind girl According to legend, Valentine miraculously restored the sight the daughter of Asterius. It is also said that he was in love with her.
5. C ) To erase the memory of a party considered too decadent . The Lupercalia were considered decadent because women were whipped to shreds of goats by men half naked. Valentin was not recognized as the patron saint of lovers that fifteenth century.
6. C ) Venus, patroness of fertility . Cupid is associated with the god Eros in Greece. It is one Many of the symbols of love still known today.
7C ) The girls were watching to determine the social origins of their future boyfriends. the Middle Ages, if a girl saw a robin, it meant she would marry a sailor, a sparrow, she would make a happy marriage with a poor man and a goldfinch, she would marry a rich man.
8. B) The poet Charles d'Orleans. Charles, Duke of Orleans, is known for his poetry written during his captivity in England. He wrote a love letter to his wife for Tower of London where he was imprisoned.
9. A ) It was an oath of faith on the letters. the Middle Ages, people unable to write their papers signed by a cross. It had the force of an oath of faith if they kissed in front of witnesses.
10. B) To prevent spyware to use this code . Allies were convinced that their enemies could use three crosses to transmit coded messages. They forbade the use of their soldiers in order to avoid confusion.
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