Valentine’s Day, celebrated on February 14, is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate those we love - to reach out to the one we love - to make it a festival of romance and affection. While some people may think, Valentine’s Day is just another commercial holiday for flower and candy shops, Valentine’s Day has deeper roots and does reach in the silent recesses of a human heart.It all started in the heart of St. Valentine. Valentine lived around 270, in the midst of the bloody persecution of the Christians. He was martyred by Emperor Claudius II in ancient Rome. Saint Valentine died as a Roman martyr priest. The saga has it that the first “Valentine’s Day” gift was actually sent by the Saint himself to the daughter of his jailer, to whom he felt a deep bond of love.Valentine’s Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. The 14th of February is probably a remnant from a period when a pagan festival occurred around that date. It was a day of joyful celebration, embracing the beginning work in the vineyards and on the fields after the long winter months. Valentine’s Day as a […]

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