valentine's day Association mid-February with love and fertility had been around since ancients. According to the chronicle of ancient Athenian calendar, the period between mid-January to mid February is the month Gamelion, which is dedicated to the god the sacred marriage of Zeus and Hera.
In ancient Rome, February 15 is the feast of Lupercalia, a celebration of Lupercus, god of fertility, which represented half-naked and dressed in goat skins. As part of the ritual of purification, the priests' victims Lupercus meyembahkan goats to the god, and then after drinking wine, they will run in Rome jejalanan while carrying the pieces of sheep skin and touching anyone they met. Especially young women will step forward to volunteer because they believe that with that they will be endowed with fertility and can give birth easily.
Feast of the Church
valentine's day According to the Catholic Encyclopedia (Catholic Encyclopaedia 1908), Valentine's name can refer to at least three martyr or saint (a saint) is different:
* A priest in Rome
* A bishop Interamna (modern Terni)
* A martyr in the Roman province of Africa.
The connection between the three martyrs was the holiday of romantic love is not clear. Even Pope Gelasius I, in the year 496, states that in fact nothing is known about these martyrs, but on February 14 set as a memorial feast day saint Valentine. Some said that Pope Gelasius I deliberately set it to beat the holiday is celebrated Lupercalia on February 15.
Skeletal remains unearthed from the tomb of Saint Hyppolytus he Tibertinus Via near Rome, identified as the corpse St. Valentinus. Then placed in a gold coffin and sent to the church Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland. The body has been given to them by Pope Gregory XVI in 1836. Many tourists now visit the church which was on valentine's day , which carried the gold coffin-wine in a solemn procession and brought to a high altar. On that day a special mass was held and dedicated to the young people and those who are in a relationship of love.
This holiday is removed from the ecclesiastical calendar in 1969 as part of a broader effort to erase the saints muasalnya of origin can be questioned and it is only based on the legend. But this party is still celebrated in certain parishes.
Valentinus
valentine's day Agnosticism science teacher Valentinus influential, is a candidate for bishop of Rome in 143. In his teachings, wedding bed has a major place in the version of Christian Love. The emphasis is much different from the concept ... in the general Christian religion. Stephan A. Hoeller, an expert, expressed his opinion about Valentinus about this: "In addition to the sacrament of baptism, confirmation, Eucharist, priesthood and oil, the flow of gnosis prominent Valentinus also emphasized two great and mysterious sacraments called 'redemption of sins" (apolytrosis) and "place wedding "..."
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar