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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orange Julius, post: 8215875, member: 77226&quot;]One of the more detailed annually posted articles on the origins of Valentines Day:</p><p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gory-origins-valentines-day-180968156/?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=socialmedia&amp;fbclid=IwAR0vYmRSpWYWP-CWLQcRNpXMUhc-iS5wDCZ6vmPVnbSH0ARQ5dl0QAQ3Tdk" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gory-origins-valentines-day-180968156/?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=socialmedia&amp;fbclid=IwAR0vYmRSpWYWP-CWLQcRNpXMUhc-iS5wDCZ6vmPVnbSH0ARQ5dl0QAQ3Tdk" rel="nofollow">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gory-origins-valentines-day-180968156/?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=socialmedia&amp;fbclid=IwAR0vYmRSpWYWP-CWLQcRNpXMUhc-iS5wDCZ6vmPVnbSH0ARQ5dl0QAQ3Tdk</a></p><p><br /></p><p>One possible origin story from the article:</p><p><i>“According to a late medieval legend reprinted in the “Acta,” which was accompanied by Bollandist critique about its historical value, a Roman priest named Valentinus was arrested during the reign of Emperor Gothicus and put into the custody of an aristocrat named Asterius.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>As the story goes, Asterius made the mistake of letting the preacher talk. Father Valentinus went on and on about <a href="https://archive.org/stream/actasanctorum05unse#page/754/mode/2up/search/valentinus?xid=PS_smithsonian" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/stream/actasanctorum05unse#page/754/mode/2up/search/valentinus?xid=PS_smithsonian" rel="nofollow">Christ leading pagans</a> out of the shadow of darkness and into the light of truth and salvation. Asterius made a bargain with Valentinus: If the Christian could cure Asterius’s foster-daughter of blindness, he would convert. Valentinus put his hands over the girl’s eyes and <a href="https://archive.org/stream/actasanctorum05unse#page/754/mode/2up/search/valentinus?xid=PS_smithsonian" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/stream/actasanctorum05unse#page/754/mode/2up/search/valentinus?xid=PS_smithsonian" rel="nofollow">chanted</a>:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>“Lord Jesus Christ, en-lighten your handmaid, because you are God, the True Light.”</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Easy as that. The child could see, according to the medieval legend. Asterius and his whole family were baptized. Unfortunately, when Emperor Gothicus heard the news, he ordered them all to be executed. But Valentinus was the only one to be beheaded. A pious widow, though, made off with his body and <a href="https://archive.org/stream/actasanctorum05unse#page/754/mode/2up/search/valentinus?xid=PS_smithsonian" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/stream/actasanctorum05unse#page/754/mode/2up/search/valentinus?xid=PS_smithsonian" rel="nofollow">had it buried at the site</a> of his martyrdom on the <a href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/Topics/Engineering/roads/Flaminia/home.html?xid=PS_smithsonian" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/Topics/Engineering/roads/Flaminia/home.html?xid=PS_smithsonian" rel="nofollow">Via Flaminia</a>, the ancient highway stretching from Rome to present-day Rimini. Later, a chapel was built over the saint’s remains.“</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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