Yesterday was the day celebrating the life (or is it death?) of Saint Valentine, who was martyred for marrying people against the law. The Caesar at the time had forbidden marriage, in order to get men to join the military. Under old law you could not go off to war in your first year of marriage. So he forbade it. Saint Valentine was a bishop who performed the marriage ceremony in secret for young folk who were in Love. Well he got caught (otherwise he wouldn't be a martyr) while in prison he fell in Love with the jailers daughter (awww) she happened to be blind, through prayer he was able to heal her sight, and wrote her a card that said "from your Valentine"-the original Valentine's card! (I wonder who gets the royalties?) Then he was dragged off to be killed, Romantic Aye?
To celebrate this man who stood up for love, Jonathan and I went out to dinner at Azteca, it was lots of fun and very good! He gave me a beautiful ruby necklace, which I am wearing today :) Then we went home, nuff' said.
So I hope you all either enjoyed this auspicious day, or in some cases managed to ignore it successfully.
God Bless!
3 comments:
Very interesting.... I always wondered how the holiday got started.
Wait...so what happened once you got home? lol. :) Glad you had a good v-day.
Let’s see. . . there is a law that if you get married you can't go to war. . . Ruler wants army to go to war. . . so instead of changing the Law prohibiting newlyweds going to war he passes a law banning marriage. Hmmm. No better solution to one bad law than to create another. Any guesses as to his party affiliation?
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