Origins of Valentine's Day

Why all the flowers and chocolates? We take a look at the origins of Saint Valentine's Day, learn about a couple of Valentines, and why there might be a big historical mistake about the whole thing! ❤️
LINKS:
An article where UCLA professor investigates claims that Valentine's Day is a historical misunderstanding: www.latimes.co...
An article about Valentine of Rome: www.johnsanido...
An article about Valentine of Terni: www.oca.org/sa...
An article about Valentine Sventitsky: roca.org/oa/vo...
Origins of chocolates on Valentine's Day: www.thechocola...
For those hoping to find love and get married, these two minutes from Mother Silouana in Romania are amazing. Turn on subtitles: • Advice for single wome...
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[@feeble_stirrings]

"Roses are red, violets are blue, I was beaten with clubs, beheaded, buried under the cover of darkness, disinterred by my followers, and you commemorate my martyrdom by sending each other chocolates."

[@yohannesatakelti8286]

this was funny for some reason

[@RosieJ7223]

I’ve seen a meme like this. While I think it’s comical, it always causes me to remember tell people that chocolate and poetry are exactly how I want people to commemorate me should I become a martyr. They may take our lives, but in Christ, they can never take our joy.

[@nolanpearce1994]

i like when he talks about the tea at the end

[@NavelOrangeGazer]

Hardest part of convincing your wife/gf to convert to Orthodoxy is convincing her to celebrate Valentine's Day in July.

[@noeljbass]

tell her you'll celebrate it on both days if she converts lol

[@nathanjohnwade2289]

​@@noeljbass a bit like Christmas or Easter

[@alenakz2077]

Well done! Finally someone said it! 🙏🏻 glory to God

[@henridib7222]

Great video brother, keep it going. Congrats on 5k

[@WilliamDusing]

Great explanation! I love all the background information!

[@henrythornton7931]

Very informative. Thank you. I so enjoy the content and videos.

[@Patristix]

Thanks, Henry!

[@bandie9101]

1:04 - Inspiring Philosophy entered the chat.

[@gamer-vh9sh]

😂 too true

[@yohannesatakelti8286]

Man, do I love Christianity.

[@Patristix]

Amen!

[@mothmanprophet11]

Great video as always.

[@larie92342]

Very interesting video.

[@Sam-rf7cb]

Great video!

[@Patristix]

Appreciate it, thanks!

[@SirAthanasius]

Good video.

[@carmen6465]

Thank you. Just a little suggestion for future videos...there are times during the video when music overpowers your speech and from my point of you music is not necessary at all, as it can change the focus and on top of that it sounds too secular. Forgive me. All the best, in Christ.

[@voxlknight2155]

I hate it when people call our holidays pagan. As if that's any sort of criticism! Are we celebrating pagan devils on that holiday or God? It's ridiculous. They think that anything pagan must be stamped out, when they don't even realize what's evil about paganism to begin with. It's the idolatry, the blood and human sacrifice, not the holidays! The holiday itself must be examined. Saturnalia, for example, is probably not a good one to bring back, because gambling was permitted during it, and there's the thing about masters and slaves switching roles (which wouldn't be possible, for obvious reasons). But there are others that are good and can be adopted and filled with God's grace easily. I say, if the devil can take and corrupt something, then we can take it back and make it godly!

[@henridib7222]

30 seconds ago.

[@TheOrthodoxPunjabi]

we're early early

[@henridib7222]

@@TheOrthodoxPunjabi yesss we are, I mean who wouldn't be with the quality these boys give us. God bless them

[@Patristix]

Thanks, you guys!

[@AlexiosTheWretched]

Ah… the origins of “The greeting card cartels”

[@loverlei79]

I'm in my 40s and I think I've heard 7 million different origin stories of valentines day. It seems no one really knows anymore of why Valentines day is a thing.

[@Patristix]

We did the math concerning your 7 million different origin stories. Assuming you have in fact heard 7 million stories, each told as swiftly as ours and lasting roughly 9 minutes, then you have listened to origin stories of Valentines Day for approximately 119 years, 10 months, 11 days, 1 hour and 10 minutes. We would like to congratulate you on building a time machine to accomplish the above listening to stories in less than 40 years. We’re glad you found Patristix and finally heard the real origins of Valentines Day 🌹😁❤️

[@loverlei79]

@@Patristix that is the most accurate comment I've ever read. 🤣 Happy Valentines Day. From one time traveller to another!

[@SeraphimVolker]

I see no reason why we can't celebrate the sacrement of marriage on Saint Valentine's day with the modern date of February 14th. The chief marriage we should celebrate is the marriage of Christ to his bride the Church.