Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14.
Originating as a Western Christian feast day honoring one or two early saints named Valentinus, Valentine's Day is recognized as a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of romance and romantic love in many regions around the world.
There are numerous martyrdom stories associated with various Valentines connected to February 14, including a written account of Saint Valentine of Rome's imprisonment for performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry and for ministering to Christians persecuted under the Roman Empire.
According to legend, Saint Valentine restored sight to the blind daughter of his judge, and he wrote her a letter signed" Your Valentine" as a farewell before his execution.
The Feast of Saint Valentine was established by Pope Gelasius I in AD 496 to be celebrated on February 14 in honour of the Christian martyr, Saint Valentine of Rome, who died on that date in AD 269.
The day first became associated with romantic love within the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.
In 18th- century England, it grew into an occasion in which couples expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards( known as" valentines").
Valentine's Day symbols that are used today include the heart- shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid.
Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have given way to mass- produced greeting cards.
In Europe, Saint Valentine's Keys are given to lovers" as a romantic symbol and an invitation to unlock the giver's heart", as well as to children to ward off epilepsy( called Saint Valentine's Malady).
Although not a public holiday in any country, Saint Valentine's Day is an official feast day in the Anglican Communion and the Lutheran Church.
Many parts of the Eastern Orthodox Church also celebrate Saint Valentine's Day on July 6 and July 30, the former date in honor of Roman presbyter Saint Valentine, and the latter date in honor of Hieromartyr Valentine, the Bishop of Interamna( modern Terni).
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Saint Valentine
Saint Valentine was a widely recognized 3 rd- century Roman saint, commemorated in Christianity on February 14.
From the High Middle Ages his Saints' Day is associated with a tradition of courtly love.
There are two different Saints' Lives for a St Valentine on February 14, but they are probably the same man.
Saint Valentine was a clergymaneither a priest or a bishopin the Roman Empire who ministered to persecuted Christians.
He was martyred and his body buried at a Christian cemetery on the Via Flaminia close to the Ponte Milvio to the north of Rome, on February 14, which has been observed as the Feast of Saint Valentine( Saint Valentine's Day) since 496 AD.
Relics of him were kept in the Church and Catacombs of San Valentino in Rome, which" remained an important pilgrim site throughout the Middle Ages until the relics of St. Valentine were transferred to the church of Santa Prassede during the pontificate of Nicholas IV".
His skull, crowned with flowers, is exhibited in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome; other relics of him were taken to Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland, where they remain; this house of worship continues to be a popular place of pilgrimage, especially on Saint Valentine's Day, for those seeking love.
For Saint Valentine of Rome, along with Saint Valentine of Terni," abstracts of the acts of the two saints were in nearly every church and monastery of Europe", according to Professor Jack B. Oruch of the University of Kansas.
Saint Valentine is commemorated in the Anglican Communion and the Lutheran Churches on February 14.
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, he is recognized on July 6; in addition, the Eastern Orthodox Church observes the feast of Hieromartyr Valentine, Bishop of Interamna, on July 30.
In 1969, the Roman Catholic Church removed his name from the General Roman Calendar, leaving his liturgical celebration to local calendars, though use of the pre -1970 liturgical calendar is also authorized under the conditions indicated in the motu proprio" Summorum Pontificum" of 2007.
The Roman Catholic Church continues to recognize him as a saint, listing him as such in the February 14 entry in the Roman Martyrology, and authorizing liturgical veneration of him on February 14 in any place where that day is not devoted to some other obligatory celebration, in accordance with the rule that on such a day the Mass may be that of any saint listed in the Martyrology for that day.
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Saint Valentine's Key
Saint Valentine ’s key is a charm used in the province of Padua, Italy.
It is a metal key named after Saint Valentine, the patron saint of love and marriage, but also believed to offer a cure for epilepsy, traditionally known as Saint Valentine's Malady.
It was once common in southern Germany, eastern Switzerland, Austria, and northern Italy to appeal to him to heal the latter condition, known for that reason as Saint Valentine's affliction.
The key is gifted as a romantic symbol and an invitation to" unlock the giver's heart".
In a ceremony at the Oratorio di San Giorgio, a small chapel in Monselice, Padua, on Saint Valentine's Day each year, small golden keys are given to children to ward off epilepsy.
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Question: Are both directors of films The Amnesiac and The Sinful Nuns Of Saint Valentine from the same country?
Answer: yes