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Editor’s Note<\/strong>: Sometimes in the paper business, articles take longer than expected and get put on the back-burner. Unfortunately, there is little margin for errors when writing about holidays. Such is the case with this.<\/em>
Due to an editorial mishap, Reverend Janglebones’ thoughts on Valentine’s Day never saw the light of day back in February.<\/em>
As we like to say, “better late than never.” So, enjoy this article about the warm feelings of St. Valentine’s Day in the July heat.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This bird is looking happily ahead to spring with flowers abloom and critters abound. This bird also likes to look under the surface of things. In light of the time, I thought it would do us good to take a look beneath the candy-hearts and botanical sex-organs that decorate the surface of the upcoming holiday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like most religious phenomena, the history<\/a> of Valentine\u2019s Day has a colorful past. Full of uncertainties, appropriations, and amendments with only myriad clues to the whole story. In reality, Saint Valentine of Rome<\/a> was a minister to persecuted Christians and martyred thusly on February 14, 269 CE (common era). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn\u2019t for another 227 years, after emperor Constantine<\/a> embraced the Christian God as Rome\u2019s own due to a 7 to 1 upset on a bridge, that the day of his martyrdom was commemorated as a holiday by Pope Gelasius I<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pope Gelasius I (Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Even still, it wasn\u2019t until Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the famous Canterbury Tales <\/a><\/em>over a thousand years later (1382) that St. Valentine became associated with romance. All due to the conjunction of two factors. First, at that time in England romantic courtship had reached the pinnacle of popularity and fashion. And second, the springtime fowl of the English countryside were all scrambling to find their mates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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