VALENTINEs A short history of this romantic feast

St. Valentines Day is celebrated on 14th February every year, and in Ireland we have a special reason to be particularly fond of this Saint as his remains are in White friar Street Church in Dublin, a gift from the nineteenth century pope, Gregory XVI. Every year special Masses are held on 14th February in the church for engaged couples. Although St. Valentine is associated with love, romance and the giving of gifts and cards, little is known of the original St. Valentine in fact there were several Valentines associated with 14th February in the early history of the Church. The first associations of St. Valentine with a day celebrating romance and love are attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer of The Canterbury Tales in the 14th century. Initially lovers used to exchange hand-written notes, letters and poems expressing their feelings. However, in the 19th century, the arrival of a postal system increased the popularity of sending loveletters, particularly anonymously, and the next development was of pre-printed cards . These were often decorated with real lace and ribbons although this was replaced with paper lace in the mid-nineteenth century. Nowadays, Valentines Day is an established day for lovers to remember each other and give each other cards and gifts, from traditional flowers and chocolates to something altogether more personal and quirky. It is also a day for candlelight dinners and other romantic dalliances for couples, and woe betide any boyfriend or husband who accidentally forgets to show his girlfriend or wife how special she is! It is estimated men spend twice as much as women on their Valentines Day gifts... For any singles without any romantic entanglements to celebrate, its definitely a day for keeping the head down who wants to be asked did they get a Valentine and have to say no?! But it is also a day for celebrating that secret crush by sending an anonymous card or gift or even asking that special someone out on a date.

5 Movies Releasing On Valentine 2014

Valentine weekend is just a fortnight away and to drum up some excitement in you guys we thought it best to make you aware of the films releasing on love day. For folks who just want to hang out with a dinner and movie, here is a list to help you plan which picture might interest you both along with our Valentinometer to help you decide!

HER This critically-acclaimed movie by Spike Jonze has been hailed as a masterpiece for its story starring Joaquin Phoenix talking to and falling in love with a computer operating system voiced by the sultry Scarlett Johansson. The film won the Best Screenplay Award at Golden Globes this year and is up for five Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. Gunday Gundays promotions have picked up pace ahead of its Valentine Day release. Its impossible you havent heard about this Yash Raj Film about Bikram (Ranveer Singh) and Bala (Arjun Kapoor) set in 1970s Calcutta along with Priyanka Chopra. We like the action and some songs already although its safe to say that the usually romantic genre-led YRF could have offered viewers something more well, romantic, on Valentine Day. Fandry Fandry is an indie movie that won critical acclaim at the 2013 Mumbai Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize. The Marathi movie will presumably have a limited release but this romantic movie set amidst caste discrimination will definitely tug both your heartstrings. All Is Lost All is Lost is moving into guy-survival arena, a genre your girl will probably not enjoy. The movie follows the story of Robert Redford who is stuck at sea waiting to be rescued. It has no dialogues to speak of and has been critically acclaimed since its premiere at Cannes 2013. Pompeii We were going to exclude this movie from our list because it seemed like another disaster movie with senseless action and violence that your girlfriend might not forgive you for showing her on Valentines Day. Then we discovered Pompeii is produced and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, the guy behind the Resident Evil films for all you ignoramuses out there.

Best Romantic Love Songs 2013-2014 List Valentine's Day

All about this love songs 2013-2014 dedicated for cute and romantic new couple's valentine's day wishes and play your favorite romantic love songs. 01. Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Alison 02. Elton John - Your Song 03. Troggs - Wild Thing 04. The Beatles P.S.- I Love You

05. Elvis Presley - Love Me Tender 06. Bette Midler - Rose, The 07. Dido - Thank You 08. Extreme - More Than Words 09. The Beatles - It's Only Love 10. Sarah Mclachlan - Building A Mystery 11. Morris Albert - Feelings 12. Alicia Keys - Fallin' 13. Sting - Every Litte Thing She Does Is Magic 14. Boyz II Men - I'll Make Love To You 15. Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 16. The Beatles - This Boy 17. Emotions - Best Of My Love 18. Al Green - Let's Stay Together 19. Barry White - You're The First, The Last, My Everthing 20. Jackson 5 - I'll Be There 21. Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U 22. Sonny And Cher - I Got You Babe 23. Chris Isaak - Wicked Game 24. Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight 25. Billy Joel - Shes Got A Way 26. Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love 27. Commodores - Three Times A Lady 28. Roxette - It Must Have Been Love 29. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On 30. Journey - Faithfully

1. Get a rectangle shaped piece of white paper or construction paper and a pencil to start.

2. Fold the paper in half.

3. Write "Happy Valentines day" or whatever you want to write with your pencil.

4. Get some markers, crayons or pencil crayons.

5. Draw pictures of any kind you prefer, on the card.You can also cut shapes out with a

scissor, and then glue it on. 6. Color in the pictures but be sure to use the warm colors.(warm colors are red, orange, pink, purple, yellow or any color related to Valentines day.)

7. Write To: and From: on the card. 8. Give the Valentines Card to the person you made it for.