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thumperclone wrote on 02/13/11 at 18:53:57:mick wrote on 02/13/11 at 16:34:24:Valentines is one big holiday made up by hallmark.
isnt it "Saint Valentine"
not hallmark
same with St. Patricks day
St Valentine day is a bit of a mystery there were three St valentines,all lived about a thousand years ago,strange that all became saints,and all on Feb 14th.
St Patrics day is a day of prayer in Ireland,Americans turned it into a drinking day, BTW St Patric was an Englishman,not Irish.
St. Valentine:
Saint Valentine (in Latin, Valentinus) is the name of several (14 in all) martyred saints of ancient Rome. The name "Valentine", derived from valens (worthy, strong, powerful), was popular in Late Antiquity.[2] Of the Saint Valentine whose feast is on February 14, nothing is known except his name and that he was buried at the Via Flaminia north of Rome on February 14. It is even uncertain whether the feast of that day celebrates only one saint or more saints of the same name. For this reason this liturgical commemoration was not kept in the Catholic calendar of saints for universal liturgical veneration as revised in 1969.[3] But "Martyr Valentinus the Presbyter and those with him at Rome" remains in the list of saints proposed for veneration by all Catholics.
The first representation of Saint Valentine appeared in the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493); alongside the woodcut portrait of Valentine, the text states that he was a Roman priest martyred during the reign of Claudius II, known as Claudius Gothicus. He was arrested and imprisoned upon being caught marrying Christian couples and otherwise aiding Christians who were at the time being persecuted by Claudius in Rome. Helping Christians at this time was considered a crime. Claudius took a liking to this prisoner – until Valentinus tried to convert the Emperor – whereupon this priest was condemned to death.
Source, Wikipedia.org
Incidentally, the origin of my own patron saint, St. Mauritius, is very similar.
As for St.Patrick, Mick is correct, Patrick was an English boy seized by pirates and sold into slavery in Ireland.
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