2020-02-04 Tue

A lovely stamp was issued by the Slovenia Post to celebrate St. Valentine’s Day. Similarly, romantic stamps are issued by the Postal service every year in February. It has also become a tradition to issues a new stamp every year to commemorate the day of lovers and it’s also profit in aggressive global marketing.

The tradition to celebrate Valentine’s Day started in Slovenia in the early 1900s and gradually this festival has been commercialized. A great deal has been written about love. According to the folk tradition, the celebration of this romantic holiday was connected to the mating season of the birds, in other words, the first early celebration of the springtime awakening.

In a very poetic form it is said as the ‘winter sleep came to an end, love began to reawaken among birds’, plants and human beings’. In Slovenia, this day mark as the day to start working in the field and is observe a spring festival. St Valentine is the patron saint of the spring. It is until March 12th, St Gregory’s Day people all over their annual day of Love.

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