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Valentine’s Day is in all literal ways, a catholic celebration of the patron Saint Valentine. I just so happen to be researching the practices of Catholicism for a project I am working on and came across this celebrated saint at an appropriate time of the year. Valentine’s Day actually falls upon the date of Saint Valentine’s execution; that is not the type of event I was thinking of while I was pasting 27 pink hearts to white doilies and addressing them to all of the students in my second grade class. I’m sure a lot of people don’t think about the significance of Valentine’s Day because it has become a celebration of love and flowers and the color red, but in reality, what made the martyr priest a saint was his heart for couples, epileptics, travelers and plague victims. His help to these people is what condemned him under the reign of Claudius II.
Does this mean because I am not a Christian I have no right to celebrate Valentine’s Day? If that is the case, a whole lot of criminal behavior goes down during Mardi gras. No, I think not.
I suppose everything evolves over time but it is interesting to me how it does so. I don’t understand how this holiday became or more or less, a Hallmark holiday. However, as we age, this holiday becomes either a dreaded event for the singles or a gloating one for the couples… I’m here to offer you a third option. Celebrate our Patron Saint, or your inner child that used to love to past pink hearts onto white doilies. Celebrate goodness that is or was defiant the way Valentine and other great figures of history did.
I am proud to say I am single on this day of martyred celebration because it allows me to have multiple ‘valentines’ (which is a stupid term; it is like giving a Christmas present to somebody and saying “be my Jesus?”). I will celebrate martyrdom as Saint Valentine would have wanted, I will bless the loves of my life… my mother, my family, my friends, my city, my teddy, my coffee, chocolate, my black hat, my dog…. All of the things that I would gladly save for the sake of a greater good-yes, I am willing to be a martyr for all of those things.
Though Valentine was not deemed a Saint until over 200 years after his death, I am hoping my enlightened philosophy on the subject will earn me sainthood before Valentine was honored. I will also accept the Nobel Peace Prize, a Pulitzer, an Oscar, or a gift card to Amazon.
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| Posted: February 13, 2011 at 8:27 pm |
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| Or how about a coffee |
| Posted by: Carly | Posted: Feb. 13, 2011 @ 8:40 pm |
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| I am honored that I am at the top of your list! You will ALWAYS be my Valentine....or my Jesus! What?? |
| Posted by: Mom | Posted: Feb. 14, 2011 @ 8:56 am |
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