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Happy Valentine’s Day to you Pearl.
I published a post on V-Day too!
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David… I was gonna write the whole story in the post but then thought just about every one knows it :) but apparently there are many who have no idea where it came from. Im glad you shared it here… hope you have a great day
Hi betshopboy: thanks for commenting – that title of your post sounds funny… will be reading it soon – thanks for stopping by…
Hi Pearl
Happy Valentines day to you too
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Hello Pearl, Happy Valentines Day to you :)
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G’day Pearl…
such a pretty image that you have posted….very a la Pearl :)
I must check out some of those links you have in a previous post…they look very interesting….
wishing you the sunniest of weekends…
xxxx from down under ;)
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Thanks Pearl. This is interesting:
Where the heck did Valentine’s Day come from? So, I decided to do a little research. Well, as it turns out, there are several different stories about the origin of Valentine’s Day. But one of them is by far the most common. Wanna hear it? So, back in about the year 270 A.D. or so,
there was a priest named, you guessed it, Valentine. Some versions of the story said that he was a Bishop. Either way…
In those days the Emperor needed men for his army and he decided that it wasn’t good to have men marrying up with women… because then the men would be more attached to their families than the army.
So, the Emperor OUTLAWED marriage.
Yep, he said, “It’s illegal to get married”. Those were the days, huh?
OK, so Priest and/or Bishop Valentine decided that he was going to help young lovers out by marrying them in SECRET. Well, the Emperor got wind of this business, and put a stop to it in a “New York Minute”. So, here’s Priest/Bishop Valentine sitting alone in prison and who comes long? The super-babe, young daughter of the jail owner’s daughter… and, of course, he falls in love with her.
One version of the story I read said that she was blind and he healed her of her blindness. In any event, right before his execution (yeah,they killed him for performing marriages), he wrote a letter to this girl he was in love with and at the end signed it “From Your Valentine”. And then he was executed.
OK… Fast forward several centuries, and now everyone is out buying heart-shaped cards, chocolate, and long-stemmed red roses for women
who have come to expect them. Gotta love it!