ST VALENTINE'S DAY

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Every February 14th, candy, flowers, and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. But who is this mysterious saint and why do we celebrate this holiday?
We’ve found 2 different legends ... Enjoy!

One legend says that the good Saint Valentine, who was a priest in Rome, in the year 269 A.D., together with his friend Saint Marius, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret.

When Valentine's actions were discovered, he was sentenced to be beaten to death with clubs and to have his head cut off.
But while in prison, it is believed that Valentine fell in love with a young girl, who may have been his jailor's daughter, who visited him during his confinement. Before his death on the 14th day of February, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter, which he signs

"From your Valentine" 

In 496 A.D., Pope Gelasius set aside February 14 to honor St. Valentine.

Another legend says that Valentine's Day started ...
in ancient Rome, on February 14th, a holiday to honor Juno. Juno was the Queen of the Roman Gods and Goddesses. The Romans also knew her as the Goddess of women and marriage. Then, the following day, February 15th, began the Feast of Lupercalia. 
In those days, the lives of young boys and girls were strictly separate. However, on the eve of the festival of Lupercalia, the names of Roman girls were written on slips of paper and placed into jars. Each young man would draw a girl's name from the jar and would then be partners for the duration of the festival with the girl whom he chose. Sometimes the pairing of the children lasted an entire year, and often, they would fall in love and would later marry.

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To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

- Bill Wilson

The heart has reasons that reason does not understad.
- Jacques Benigne Bossuel

If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest.

- Anonymous
Love is componed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle

If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with...

- Anonymous
We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.
- Luciano de Crescenzo

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
- Blaise Pascal
To love another person is to see the face of God.

- Les Miserables

So I will stand here forever, If forever's what it takes, because you are my forever and forever always waits. 

- Anonymous

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. 

- Anonymous