Stores over flow with Valentine's day cards and candy. In schools teenagers snicker at prospective Valentines. Notice the Valentine not St. Valentine. Catholicism and its fruits are being reduced to secular holidays. Does anybody today know the history of St. Valentine's Day? No, modernism has taken yet another Catholic holiday and abolished its history and meaning. In the pagan, Roman days Feb. 14 was the pagan feastday for the goddess of love and therefore a great feast for lovers. When society was becoming influenced by Christ's true Church the Pope took the pagan feast and elevated it to a Catholic one. The Pope chose St. Valentine as the patron of the day because he is the patron saint of lovers. As the story goes a young man died and his sweetheart went to St. Valentine to plead him to bring her lover back to life. St. Valentine complied and through him God raised the young man back to life. St. Valentine was later martyered for the Faith coincidentally on Feb. 14. In the Middle Ages the Catholic feast was celebrated with Mass and then an exchange of gifts or letters between younger people in a much more cordial and Catholic manner than today. Today it is more of a joke than young men and women who are thinking of marriage.
St. Valentine,
Pray for us!
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