Hahaha. I just read that article. In light of everything I've been hearing lately about how everyone wants to move to Cananda, I found this article to be extrememly funny.
But that's still a weird holiday to celebrate. I see the point, but it still seems odd.
Wasn't Valentine's Day based on some violent event, too?
Perhaps, this is another instance of the Roman Catholic church trying to rewrite history by errassing old traditions by making up new ones and celebrating them close to the time that the old festivities would fall. For instance, like moving the celebration of Christmas from the summer to the fall. Who knows? It is interesting none the less.
Ahh, I thought right..."For eight hundred years prior to the establishment of Valentine's Day, the Romans had practiced a pagan celebration in mid-February commemorating young men's rite of passage to the god Lupercus. The celebration featured a lottery in which young men would draw the names of teenage girls from a box. The girl assigned to each young man in that manner would be his sexual companion during the remaining year."
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But that's still a weird holiday to celebrate. I see the point, but it still seems odd.
Wasn't Valentine's Day based on some violent event, too?
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Let's see, thank god for google, yeah valentinesday does seem to be bassed on a violent event, but as far as I thought I knew an ancient pagan holiday predates the marytodom of St. Valentine http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/valentine/history.html.,
http://www.pictureframes.co.uk/pages/saint_valentine.htm.
Perhaps, this is another instance of the Roman Catholic church trying to rewrite history by errassing old traditions by making up new ones and celebrating them close to the time that the old festivities would fall. For instance, like moving the celebration of Christmas from the summer to the fall. Who knows? It is interesting none the less.
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http://wilstar.com/holidays/valentn.htm
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