To ALL you beautiful ladies who put smiles on our faces daily Happy Valentines Day!!!!

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To ALL you beautiful ladies who put smiles on our faces daily Happy Valentines Day!!!!

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Happy Valentines Day to all the lovers! Hope the day brings a lot of joy and love.
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Happy over-commercialised big price increase business contrived romance day to all. Quote

Happy over-commercialised big price increase business contrived romance day to all.



As with many events that occurred so long ago, many theories abound. Indeed, there were several different Valentines, and nobody is 100 percent sure which one was which. Some believe he was a priest, others believe he was a bishop, some believe he was a combination of the two, and still others believe he was someone else entirely. All that said, there is little doubt among experts that Valentine did exist in one form or another.

According to Catholic Online, St. Valentine was very real, but he probably wasn't a smooth operator with the ladies. Valentine was a holy priest in Rome, who, with St. Marius and his family, assisted the martyrs in the persecution under Claudius II. For his trouble, Valentine was beaten and then executed after authorities were unable to get him to renounce his faith. His death occurred on ... February 14.

As for how the holiday came to represent over-commercialised big price increase business contrived romance day, there are few different theories for that as well. According to blog specializing in saints, "some believe the Romans had a mid-February custom where boys drew the names of girls in honour of the sex and fertility goddess, Februata Juno." Others feel the custom of greetings "stems from the belief that birds begin to pair on that date."
Personally, I believe Saint Valentine was originally discovered inside a box of chocolates and now owns Hallmark.

And, of course, there's the slew of internet related searches on everything from "valentine's day poems" to "romantic movies". And it's all thanks to the one and only St. Valentine, whoever he was.
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And it's all thanks to the one and only St. Valentine, whoever he was.



I wikied it (as carousel probably did also ):

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





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