Valentine's Day
The rise of Internet popularity at the turn of the millennium is
creating new traditions. Millions of people use, every year, digital
means of creating and sending Valentine's Day greeting messages such as
e-cards, love cupons or printable greeting cards. An estimated 15
million e-valentines were sent in 2010.
Is an annual holiday celebrated on February 14. It is named like
that bcause of the saint Valentinus who married couples of christian
soldiers that was forbidden in that time, he was persecuted and during
his imprisonment healed the daughter of his jailer and before his
execution, he wrote her a letter signed "Your Valentine" as a farewell.
In 18th-century England, it evolved into an occasion in which
lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers,
offering confectionary and sending greeting cards.
Valentine's Day symbols that are used today include the heart-shape outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid.
Here in Mexico people celebrate Valentine's Day giving present,
cards, goint to restaurants, hotels, to the movies and the theater.