Chaplain's Chat W Dear Friends, The In honor of Valentine's Day here are some words of God's Love from the Psalms: "How Villager priceless is your unfailing love! People take refuge in the shadow Of Your wings." -Psalm OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF WESTCHESTER VILLAGE 02-01-2021 36:7, "Your Love is better than life; my lips will glorify you!"-Psalm 63:3, "For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His Love for those who fear Him." -Psalm 103:11, "Praise the Lord! Give thanks to the Lord! For He is good; His love endures forever!"-Psalm 106:1, "O Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing Early Origins of St. Valentine Love, and with Him is full redemption!" -Psalm 130:7, "The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in Love!" -Psalm 145:8 Ancient sources reveal that there were several St. Valentines who died on Feb. 14. Two of them were executed during the reign of Gothicus in 269-270 A. D., at a time when persecution of Christians was common. How do we know this? Because, an order of Belgian monks spent three centuries collecting evidence for the lives of saints from manuscript archives around the known world. They were called Bollandists after Jean Bolland, a Jesuit scholar who began publishing the massive 68-folio volumes of "Acta Groundhog Day Fun Facts Sanctorum," or "Lives of the Saints," beginning in 1643. Since then, successive generations of monks continued the work until the last volume was published in 1940. The Brothers -The 1993 movie Groundhog Day starring Bill Murray took place in Punxsutawney, dug up every scrap of information about every saint on the liturgical calendar and printed Pennsylvania and made the holiday even more popular. How accurate the predictions of the the texts arranged according to the saint's feast day. The volume encompassing Feb. 14 groundhogs are is up for debate. contains the stories of a handful of "Valentini," including the earliest three of whom died in -People who organize the day say that they are very accurate. However, others say it's just the third century. The earliest Valentinus is said to have died in Africa, along with 24 luck. In Alaska they use a marmot and have a marmot day instead. soldiers. Unfortunately, even the Bollandists could not find any more information about -Another name for the groundhog is the woodchuck. It is part of the squirrel family. him. As the monks knew, sometimes all that the saints left behind was a name and day of -Punxsutawney Phil normally lives in a nice climate controlled home in the local library death. We know only a little more about the other two Valentines. According to a late throughout most of the year. medieval legend reprinted in the "Acta," which was accompanied by Bollandist critique -He is moved up to Gobbler's Knob on February 2nd, where he makes his annual weather 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. As the story goes, Asterius made the mistake of letting the preacher talk. Father Valentinus went on and on about Christ leading pagans 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' foster-daughter of blindness, he would convert. Valentinus put his hands over the girl's eyes cont. Early Origins of St. Valentine and chanted: "Lord Jesus Christ, enlighten your handmaid, because you are God, the True Light."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 It is likely, as the Bollandists suggested, that there weren't actually two decapitated ordered them all to be executed. But Valentinus was the only one to be beheaded. A pious Valentines, but that two different versions of one saint's legend appeared in both and widow, though, made off with his body and had it buried at the site of his martyrdom on Terni. Nonetheless, African, Roman or Umbrian, none of the Valentines seems to have the Via Flaminia, the ancient highway stretching from Rome to present-day Rimini. Later, been a romantic. Indeed, medieval legends, repeated in modern media, had St. Valentine a chapel was built over the saint's remains St. Valentine was not a romantic. The third performing Christian marriage rituals or passing notes between Christian lovers jailed by third-century Valentinus was a bishop of Terni in the province of Umbria, Italy. According Gothicus. Still other stories romantically involved him with the blind girl whom he to his equally dodgy legend, Terni's bishop got into a situation like the other Valentinus by allegedly healed. Yet none of these medieval tales had any basis in third-century history, as debating a potential convert and afterward healing his son. The rest of story is quite similar the Bollandists pointed out. In any case, historical veracity did not count for much with as well: He too, was beheaded on the orders of Emperor Gothicus and his body buried medieval Christians. along the Via Flaminia.

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