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Happy Valentine's Day Gang!

Postby enterprikayak » Mon Feb 14, 2011 11:41 pm

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Happy Valentine's Day all!

How did you put in the day?


I worked. Woo hoo!


Wikipedia wrote: Saint Valentine's Day, commonly shortened to Valentine's Day, is an annual commemoration held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. The day is named after one or more early Christian martyrs, Saint Valentine, and was established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD. It was deleted from the Roman calendar of saints in 1969 by Pope Paul VI. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). The day first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.

Modern Valentine's Day symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have given way to mass-produced greeting cards.

Numerous early Christian martyrs were named Valentine. The Valentines honored on February 14 are Valentine of Rome (Valentinus presb. m. Romae) and Valentine of Terni (Valentinus ep. Interamnensis m. Romae). Valentine of Rome was a priest in Rome who was martyred about AD 269 and was buried on the Via Flaminia. His relics are at the Church of Saint Praxed in Rome, and at Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland.

Valentine of Terni became bishop of Interamna (modern Terni) about AD 197 and is said to have been martyred during the persecution under Emperor Aurelian. He is also buried on the Via Flaminia, but in a different location than Valentine of Rome. His relics are at the Basilica of Saint Valentine in Terni (Basilica di San Valentino).

The Catholic Encyclopedia also speaks of a third saint named Valentine who was mentioned in early martyrologies under date of February 14. He was martyred in Africa with a number of companions, but nothing more is known about him.

No romantic elements are present in the original early medieval biographies of either of these martyrs. By the time a Saint Valentine became linked to romance in the 14th century, distinctions between Valentine of Rome and Valentine of Terni were utterly lost.

In the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints, the feast day of Saint Valentine on February 14 was removed from the General Roman Calendar and relegated to particular (local or even national) calendars for the following reason: "Though the memorial of Saint Valentine is ancient, it is left to particular calendars, since, apart from his name, nothing is known of Saint Valentine except that he was buried on the Via Flaminia on February 14." The feast day is still celebrated in Balzan (Malta) where relics of the saint are claimed to be found, and also throughout the world by Traditionalist Catholics who follow the older, pre-Second Vatican Council calendar. February 14 is also celebrated as St Valentine's Day in other Christian denominations; it has, for example, the rank of 'commemoration' in the calendar of the Church of England and other parts of the Anglican Communion.

The Early Medieval acta of either Saint Valentine were expounded briefly in Legenda Aurea. According to that version, St Valentine was persecuted as a Christian and interrogated by Roman Emperor Claudius II in person. Claudius was impressed by Valentine and had a discussion with him, attempting to get him to convert to Roman paganism in order to save his life. Valentine refused and tried to convert Claudius to Christianity instead. Because of this, he was executed. Before his execution, he is reported to have performed a miracle by healing the blind daughter of his jailer.

Since Legenda Aurea still provided no connections whatsoever with sentimental love, appropriate lore has been embroidered in modern times to portray Valentine as a priest who refused an unattested law attributed to Roman Emperor Claudius II, allegedly ordering that young men remain single. The Emperor supposedly did this to grow his army, believing that married men did not make for good soldiers. The priest Valentine, however, secretly performed marriage ceremonies for young men. When Claudius found out about this, he had Valentine arrested and thrown in jail.

There is an additional modern embellishment to The Golden Legend, provided by American Greetings to History.com, and widely repeated despite having no historical basis whatsoever. On the evening before Valentine was to be executed, he would have written the first "valentine" card himself, addressed to a young girl variously identified as his beloved, as the jailer's daughter whom he had befriended and healed, or both. It was a note that read "From your Valentine."
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Re: Happy Valentine's Day Gang!

Postby Silverbullet » Tue Feb 15, 2011 12:34 am

Happy Valentines day to all of the lovely ladies of Trisilk. they make Valentines day special.

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Postby Distracted » Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:13 am

I worked, too. Then I came home and had steak, potato, greens, and chocolate covered strawberries with hubby. Yum. Too tired to do anything else, though.

I hope you have a memorable evening with priso tonight, ek. Somebody ought to on Valentine's day. :twisted:

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Re: Happy Valentine's Day Gang!

Postby Linda » Tue Feb 15, 2011 3:17 am

I worked too. It was the last class of a series of swimming lessons at the YMCA and I gave out report cards. Also I gave little packages of Valentine candy to my students. I got two Valentines from my students in return. And, oh, I got a bunch of flowers from my husband. :thumbsup:
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Postby enterprikayak » Tue Feb 15, 2011 4:28 am

Nice Linda!

Yeah, Dis, unlikely. He gets home at 1 am tonite and if he TRIES to touch me I will smack him. :lol:

Jennifer's Sleep is a Phenomenon Not to Be Disturbed. :vulcan:

He works 4pm to midnight these days which is good cause then he's home in the morning with the kids on the 3 mornings I work. But it *is* hard trying to keep the kids quiet from 8 am to 10 am when he gets up. :roll:
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Re: Happy Valentine's Day Gang!

Postby Distracted » Wed Feb 16, 2011 1:15 am

I bet it is. Hmmm. So even our resident wild woman slept instead of playing bedsheet bingo with her one-and-only on Valentine's day. That's depressing. We're getting old. Or maybe just overworked. They say libido hits its lowest levels after the kids arrive. I believe it. Once the kids finally move out, THEN we'll be old. ;-)
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Re: Happy Valentine's Day Gang!

Postby Silverbullet » Wed Feb 16, 2011 1:32 am

OLD? OLD? you are still on the Sunshine side of 50, YOUNG.

Old is whhen everything hurts and what doesn't hurt doesn't work.

Old is when all the names in your little black book end in MD.

Old is when you stop to think and forget to start up again.

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Re: Happy Valentine's Day Gang!

Postby starwatcher » Fri Feb 18, 2011 1:47 am

Heh, John went to class, I chatted to my folks via Skype. He came home, we went to the gym and then made steak and watched Battlestar Galactica. And he got me cute presents :-) Our Fearless Leader did good :-D I got him a cookbook. We're romantic!

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Re: Happy Valentine's Day Gang!

Postby enterprikayak » Fri Feb 18, 2011 5:22 am

Awwww! Sounds like you got him trained up right proper. :lol: Good for you.
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