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Valentines Day - by Paradise Flowers

 
For a romantic Valentine’s day, express your love with the best Valentine’s Day flowers from Paradise Flowers! From romantic roses to impressive modern bouquets, we can help you select beautiful and affordable flowers for Valentine’s Day and deliver them to Tampa, FL or nationwide. For a day filled with love and romance, look no further than Paradise Flowers!
















Roman roots:


The history of Valentine's Day is obscure, and further clouded by
various fanciful legends. The holiday's roots are in the ancient
Roman festival of Lupercalia, a fertility celebration commemorated
annually on
February 15. Pope Gelasius 1 recast this festival as a Christian
feast day
circa 496, declaring February 14 to be St. Valentine's Day.

Valentines Galore:

Which St. Valentine this early pope intended to honor remains a
mystery:
according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, there were at least three
early
Christian Saints by that name. One was a priest in Rome, another a
bishop
in Temi, and of a third St Valentine almost nothing is known except
that he
met his end in Africa. Rather astonishingly, all three Valentines
were said
to have been martyred on Feb 14.

Most scholars believe that the St. Valentine of the holiday was a
priest who
attracted the disfavor of Roman emperor Claudius 11 around 270. At
this stage,
the factual ends and the mythic begins. According to one legend,
Claudius 11
had prohibited marriage for young men, claiming that bachelors made
better
soldiers. Valentine continued to secretly perform marriage ceremonies
but was eventually apprehended by the Romans and put to death.
Another legend has it that Valentine, imprisoned by Claudius, fell in
love with the daughter of
his jailer. Before he was executed, he allegedly set her a letter
signed "from your Valentine." Probably the most plausible story
surrounding
St. Valentine he allegedly sent her a letter signed from "from your
Valentine."

It was not until the 14th century that this Christian feast day
became definitively associated with love. According to UCLA medieval
scholar Henry Ansgar Kelly, author of Chaucer and the Cult of Saint
Valentine, it was
Chaucer who fist linked ST. Valentine's Day with romance

For many years Valentines day across the world, roses are a very
special gift. It somewhat signifies love and romance. The most
popular color used is red ,and other colors
Here at Paradise flower we carry a wide range of roses
We carry all the colors you can think of. our roses and other
flowers are imported from Bogota and other parts of the world.
Give us a call we look forward to hearing from you.