Regarding some text I've found about Valentine's Day
The Catholic church initially announced Valentine's Day in order to combat Lupercalia, a festival of eroticism that honored Juno Februata, the goddess of "feverish" (febris) love. Annually, on the ides of February, love notes or "billets" would be drawn to partner men and women for feasting and sexual game playing.
Pope Gelasius, seeing the dangers of such a decadent event, declared the feast of St. Valentine on February 14th (the death of Valentinus). St. Valentinus was known for alot of things not to mention the fact of there being at least three other St. Valentines. None of them; however, were known for Romantic love, even though there were several legends created of a St. Valentine who cured a blind girl who in turn fell in love with him. According to the myth, he sent her a letter signed, "Your Valentine" just before he was martyred. I did some research on this, and why I always thought he was blind and that his daughter would come to read to him in prison is beyond me. Perhaps it's the myth I had come to believe.
All myths dispelled, my friends. Valentine's Day is a day that was only meant to slow a pagan tradition of debauchery and eroticism--nothing more.
Pope Gelasius, seeing the dangers of such a decadent event, declared the feast of St. Valentine on February 14th (the death of Valentinus). St. Valentinus was known for alot of things not to mention the fact of there being at least three other St. Valentines. None of them; however, were known for Romantic love, even though there were several legends created of a St. Valentine who cured a blind girl who in turn fell in love with him. According to the myth, he sent her a letter signed, "Your Valentine" just before he was martyred. I did some research on this, and why I always thought he was blind and that his daughter would come to read to him in prison is beyond me. Perhaps it's the myth I had come to believe.
All myths dispelled, my friends. Valentine's Day is a day that was only meant to slow a pagan tradition of debauchery and eroticism--nothing more.