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Love and Friendship day




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Día de Amor y Amistad (Day of Love and Friendship) is celebrated the third Saturday of September every year in Colombia. This is essentially the Valentine’s Day of Colombia.

This is a traditional celebration in Colombia in which lovers, husbands and wives, couples and friends express their love and affection.

In Colombia, normally for weeks before this day in September you will start to see hearts adorn restaurants, shops and bars.

In 2020, Día de Amor y Amistad in Colombia is on Saturday, September 19.

History of Valentine’s Day (a.k.a. Saint Valentine’s Day)

Valentine’s Day is an annual holiday typically celebrated on February 14 in many parts of the world. It is recognized as a significant cultural and commercial celebration. But it’s reportedly not a public holiday in any country.

The origin of Valentine’s Day can be traced back to ancient Rome. 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 Terni, and of a third St. Valentine little is known except that he met his end in Africa. Rather astonishingly, all three Valentines were said to have been martyred on February 14.

Most scholars believe that the Saint Valentine of the holiday was a priest who attracted the disfavor of Roman emperor Claudius II in 270.

Supposedly Claudius had prohibited marriage for young men. He claimed that bachelors made for better soldiers. But Valentine continued to perform marriage ceremonies in secret. And he was eventually apprehended by the Romans and put to death.

Another legend has it that Valentine, who was imprisoned by Claudius, fell in love with a daughter of his jailer. Before he was executed, he supposedly sent her a letter signed “from your Valentine.”

Chaucer and Shakespeare both romanticized Valentine’s Day in their work. And it gained popularity throughout Britain.

Valentine’s Day eventually it made its way to the U.S. And Hallmark Cards started mass producing Valentine cards in 1913, which was the start of massive commercialization of Valentine’s Day in the U.S.

What are the typical gifts in Colombia in Amor y amistad day?




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