Happy Valentine’s Day
Dear Friends & Neighbors,
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To find out a bit of history about Valentine’s Day, please refer to the excerpt from wikipedia, in italics, below:
Valentine’s Day, also called Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine,[1] is celebrated annually on February 14.[2] It originated as a Christian feast day honoring one or two early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine and, through later folk traditions, has become a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world.[3]
There are a number of martyrdom stories associated with various Valentines connected to February 14,[4] including an account of the imprisonment of Saint Valentine of Rome for ministering to Christians persecuted under the Roman Empire in the third century.[5][6] According to an early tradition, Saint Valentine restored sight to the blind daughter of his jailer.[7] Numerous later additions to the legend have better related it to the theme of love: an 18th-century embellishment to the legend claims he wrote the jailer’s daughter a letter signed “Your Valentine” as a farewell before his execution;[8] another tradition posits that Saint Valentine performed weddings for Christian soldiers who were forbidden to marry.[6]
There is a tradition that the Feast of Saint Valentine was established by Pope Gelasius I in AD 496 to be celebrated on February 14 in honour of Saint Valentine of Rome, who died on that date in AD 269.[9][10] The feast is found in the Gelasian Sacramentary (which was compiled after Gelasius), meaning that is has been observed since at least the eighth century.[11] The day became associated with romantic love in the 14th and 15th centuries when notions of courtly love flourished, apparently by association with the “lovebirds” of early spring. In 18th-century England, it grew into an occasion in which couples expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as “valentines”). Valentine’s Day symbols that are used today 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.[12] In Italy, Saint Valentine’s Keys are given to lovers “as a romantic symbol and an invitation to unlock the giver’s heart”, as well as to children to ward off epilepsy (called Saint Valentine’s Malady).[13]
Saint Valentine’s Day is not a public holiday in any country, although it is an official feast day in the Anglican Communion[14] and the Lutheran Church.[15] Many parts of the Eastern Orthodox Church also celebrate Saint Valentine’s Day on July 6 in honor of Roman presbyter Saint Valentine, and on July 30 in honor of Hieromartyr Valentine, the Bishop of Interamna (modern Terni).[16]
Join us as we explore the History of Valentines Day, in the video published on Feb 10, 2011, “History of the Holidays: History of Valentines Day |History“, below:
First lady Jill Biden is hosting a Valentine’s Day celebration at the White House. She’ll be joined by second graders and a teacher from Aiton Elementary School in Washington, D.C., in the video published on Feb 14, 2022, “Jill Biden Hosts Valentine’s Day Event at White House | LIVE“, below:
Jamie Wax caught up with some second graders at Lely Elementary School in Naples, Florida, to get their thoughts on Valentine’s Day and find out what they think “love” really means, in the video published on Feb 14, 2022, “Valentine’s Day, CBS News asked some Florida second-graders: “What is love?” below:
Love is in the air! Moses Verbena and Monica Fonseca, who wore a dress covered in red roses, traveled from Texas and braved the below-freezing temperatures in New York to say “I do” on Valentine’s Day. A crowd gathered to watch the one-of-a-kind ceremony at the crossroads of the world. Meanwhile, another woman came all the way from the United Kingdom to get down on bended knee to pop the question to her longtime girlfriend, in the video published on Feb 14, 2022, “Couple Gets Married in Times Square on Valentine’s Day“, below:
We want to wish the couples a Happy Wedding and Valentine’s Day! In the video published on Feb 14, 2022, “14 couples getting married virtually in DC on Valentine’s Day | Get Uplifted“, below:
In Charlotte, North Carolina, flower shop owner Ashley Manning came up with the idea to send Valentine’s Day flowers to women who have lost their husbands, in the video published on Feb 14, 2022, “Florist has a special mission for Valentine’s Day| WNT“, below:
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