{"id":30629,"date":"2014-02-14T17:17:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T16:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/?p=30629"},"modified":"2014-02-14T17:17:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T16:17:06","slug":"happy-valentines-day-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/bkblog\/happy-valentines-day-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Valentines Day 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wishing All of You Lovers out there a Very Happy Valentines Day 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Happy<\/a><\/p>\n

Valentine’s Day, or as it is more formally known, Saint Valentine’s Day, is celebrated on 14th February each year. The Valentines that are commemorated or two Italian saints, Valentin or Valentnus, who share the saint’s day of 14th February. The date is now when lovers declare their love by sending each other gifts and romantic cards. There’s nothing especially romantic about the lives of the two original Valentines, they were both martyred for their faith, in Ad 197 and AD 269 respectively.<\/p>\n

\"Happy<\/a><\/p>\n

The early tradition of Valentine’s Day was that it was the date that birds began to choose their mates, only later did the romance extend to the human population. The first reference in print to Valentine’s Day is found in Geoffrey Chaucer’s\u00a0The parlement of foules<\/em>\u00a0[The Parliament of Fowls], circa 1381:<\/p>\n

For this was on seynt Volantynys day Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese his make.
\n[For this was Saint Valentine’s day, when every bird of every kind comes to this place to choose his mate.<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How the date of 14th February was selected isn’t known. It may relate to the approximate date first anniversary of the engagement of King Richard II of England to Anne of Bohemia, which Chaucer’s poem was written to honour. The couple were both 14 at the time of the engagement, which took place on 2nd May 1381, not on 14th February. The betrothal of young lovers sounds promising as a romantic story bit, in fact it wasn’t. The marriage was purely a political contract between Anne’s brother, King Wenceslas IV of Bohemia and the English government – the partners were unlikely to have met prior to the marriage.<\/p>\n

\"Happy<\/a><\/p>\n

The earliest known romantic valentine verse was written by Charles, Duke of Orleans to his wife in the 15th century:<\/p>\n

Je suis desja d’amour tann\u00e9
\nMa tres doulce Valentin\u00e9e
\n[I am already sick of love,
\nMy very gentle Valentine<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since then, there have been in numeral others…<\/p>\n

How Do I Love Thee?<\/strong>
\nHow Do I Love Thee? Let me count the ways.
\nI love thee to the depth and breadth and height
\nMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
\nFor the ends of Being an ideal Grace.
\nI love thee to the level of everyday’s
\nMost quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
\nI love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
\nI love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
\nI love thee with the passion put to use
\nIn my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
\nI love thee with a love I seemed to lose
\nWith my lost saints,- I love thee with the Breath,
\nSmiles, tears, of all my life!- and, if God choose,
\nI shall but love thee better after death.
\n– Elizabeth Barret Browning<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>\"Happy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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