Oh Cheryl, that was a great story -made me LMAO!! Thanks for sharing it with
us!Love,Evonne x x
On Sunday, February 14, 2021, 06:30:11 PM EST, Cheryl Gehrke
<cheryl_g@xxxxx> wrote:
Yes I always thought it was so neat. Iwent to a Catholic school when I was
younger. In the 6th, 7thand 8th grades. I joined the Girl Scouts when I was in
the 7thand 8th grades and we learned about St. Valentine. We had thislittle
play in our school cafeteria where Linda Devlin and I played the Romansoldiers
and Sylvia Kimball played St. Valentine. We practiced the play manytimes and we
had cardboard swords covered with aluminum foil and since we hadpracticed so
many times, our swords were kind of getting a little worse forwear, so when we
had the play in front of all the kids in our school, webrought St. Valentine
out who was dressed in her moms bath robe and threw him(her) in our little jail
which was a big cardboard box and we asked him (Sylvia)to renounce Jesus and
she said no,no I will never renounce Jesus. So Linda andI said then you are
going to die. We took her out of the prison and she trippedover her moms bath
robe and fell down. (Laughter) We picked her up roughly andwe tied her up to a
pole. Then we stabbed her with our swords, and both of ourswords bent in half.
All the kids cracked up laughing. Even the nuns had a hardtime keeping a
straight face. It was not supposed to end that way. So everyValentines Day I
think about that. I think also about how hard it was back inthose days to
worship God and believe and worship Jesus, and how many peopledied for their
belief in Jesus especially with the Romans as they had their owngods and wanted
everyone to believe and worship their gods which were idols. Somany died in
horrible ways. They were not compassionate people those Romans.And how Jesus
said to endure to the end, even in death. All the Christians hadto do was
worship the statue of Diana one of their goddesses but they refusedto do it.
They endured to the end.
Love
Cheryl
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Subject: [naturalrabbit] Re: WhoWas St. Valentine? How a Martyred Saint
Inspired Valentine's Day
Isn’t that so awesome that valentines days origins began withthis amazing and
beautiful saint who was martyred and died for Jesus. I knewabout him when I was
growing up, raised as a catholic. And every year I tributepart of the day for
him, like st. Francis he was so special. I didn’tknow about the bees though
which thrills me to pieces. We could sure use him inthis mess we are in now.
There are so many martyrdom stories associatedValentine’s Day, st Valentine’s
was imprisoned for ministering toChristians persecuted under the Roman Empire
in the 3rd century. It was even said that this saint healed and restoredthe
sight to a blind daughter of his jailer. Then the legend wenton and claimed
he wrote the jailers daughter a letter and signed it “yourvalentine” as a
farewell before his execution, and performed weddings forChristian soldiers who
were forbidden to marry.
Thanks for sharing.
Love, Janet
On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 10:03 AM Evonne Vey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
If you lived in the early first few centuries AD, anddidn’t have as much
historical documentation as the New Testament,a great deal of legend or myth
would happen to arise about your life.
Such is the case with St. Valentine (or Valentinus), of thethird century AD,
from whom we best know the holiday associated with him onFebruary 14 -
Valentine’s Day.
But certainly something went awry from the life of a celibatesaint whose legacy
has turned into a day where significant others hand eachother chocolates and
candies. What all do we really know aboutthis martyr? And what myths have
developed about him over time?
We’ll dive into the true life of St. Valentine andseparate the fact from the
fiction.
Photo credit: Pexels/Ylanite Koppens
Factsabout St. Valentine
Unfortunately,because St. Valentine lived more than 1700 years ago, we don’t
have manysolid details on his life. Because, as mentioned before, we don’t
have5600 Greek manuscripts corroborating the evidence and details of his life,
aswe do have for the New Testament, we have only some skeletonic facts aboutthe
life of thisSaint.
First, we do know that St. Valentine lived during the mid tolate 3rd century.
As a refresher in church history, this was a period ofintense persecution in
Rome prior to Constantine ’s reign in Rome in the 300s AD where he legalized
Christianity.
We know that St. Valentine was working as a Roman priest duringthe reign of an
emperor named Claudius, as explained by David Kithcart inthis article. The
emperor’s nickname, Claudius theCruel, can give readers a hint at some of
thepersecution Christians may have endured under his rule. What’s more,
manyRomans experienced some persecution under the emperor as well.
As stated in the History.com article linked above, Claudiuslikely believed that
the reason the Roman army wasn’t as formidable aspossible was because husbands
wanted to stay at homes with their wives andfamilies instead of fighting in
wars.
To combat this, Claudius made marriage and engagements illegalin Rome to
swaymale soldiers to stay in the Roman army and not worry about a significant
otherback home.
Valentine, a proponent of marriage, especially Christianmarriage, married many
couples in secret.
When Claudius II discovered him, explains Kithcart, he sentencedValentine to a
three-part execution: beating, stoning, and then a beheading.Most believe St.
Valentine was killed during the year 270 AD, but some havedebated whether his
death happened during one of the surrounding years.
Valentine has since become a patron Saint of Love,and actually, a patron saint
of beekeepers, explains this article fromWorld Vision, since bees are often
equated as an aphrodisiac.
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St. Valentine: Patron saint of beekeepers | World Vision
There's more to St. Valentine than Valentine's Day, romance, and love. He's the
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Janet
"Whoeversaves a single life, it is as if he had saved the whole world"
