2007-02-14 10:59:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Many Protestants celebrate St. Valentine's without realizing that is a Catholic holiday. I feel sorry for their ignorance. Catholicism is an important part of American culture. Look at St. Patrick's day ( Irish aren't the only ones celebrating it), most movies about Christianity are about Catholicism, and now Valentine's Day. People should realize that almost everything deals with the Catholic faith. Is in these cases that I'm happy to be Catholic. My religion is present in almost everything.
2007-02-14 11:16:07 · answer #1 · answered by cynical 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i'm a Catholic. in the Liturgical Calendar today is the Thursday in the first week of Lent. Little is popular about St. Valentine, except there have been numerous martyrs by technique of this call in the course of the 0.33 century . for this reason St. Valentines Day has no longer been a Catholic dinner party Day because Vatican II. sturdy aspect, although. St. Valentine's day is yet another social gathering of what began out as a non secular vacation being became right into an afternoon of commercial extra.
2016-11-03 11:31:24 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not Catholic, (or protestant, but I suppose they would have the same reason). It's part of our (American) culture. It is even called Valentine's Day, not St. Valentine's Day now. It is considered a celebration of romantic relationships, and I didn't hear a single mention af Saints today. This is like how atheists still hide eggs for their kids for easter, and such.
I think that you knew this though, and just wanted to point out this descrepency in faith and practice. I assume you are Catholic. But that's my two-bits.
2007-02-14 11:14:35 · answer #3 · answered by lord_makus 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I celebrate today because I am a Catholic.
We welcome anyone who would celebrate the life and death of this great Christan martyr with us. Praise God!
Little is known for sure about Valentine. Whoever he was, Valentine really existed because archaeologists have unearthed a Roman catacomb and an ancient church dedicated to Saint Valentine. In 496 AD Pope Gelasius marked February 14th as a celebration in honor of his martyrdom.
A book published in 1493 tells this story: Valentine was a Roman priest martyred during the reign of Claudius the Goth [Claudius II].
Since he was caught marrying Christian couples and aiding any Christians who were being persecuted under Emperor Claudius in Rome [when helping them was considered a crime], Valentine was arrested and imprisoned.
Claudius took a liking to this prisoner -- until Valentine made a strategic error: he tried to convert the Emperor -- whereupon this priest was condemned to death.
He was beaten with clubs and stoned; when that didn't do it, he was beheaded outside the Flaminian Gate [circa 269].
One legend says, while awaiting his execution, Valentine restored the sight of his jailer's blind daughter.
Another legend says, on the eve of his death, he penned a farewell note to the jailer's daughter, signing it, "From your Valentine."
St. Valentine is the Patron Saint of affianced couples, bee keepers, epilepsy, fainting, greetings, happy marriages, love, lovers, plague, travelers, young people.
With love in Christ.
2007-02-14 15:29:40 · answer #4 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Was cannonization among Luther's objections?
2007-02-14 12:12:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why can't they, it is a day to show how much you love some one
God Bless You
2007-02-14 11:10:29 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋