Happy Valentine's Day, all! Although, to be technical, Valentine's Day was actually yesterday. And if we are going to be really technical, yesterday wasn't really "Valentine's Day" either - it was Cyril and Methodius Day (as mom so helpfully and accurately pointed out). Valentine's day was taken away from him sometime ago, because, let's face facts here , we don't even really know who this St. Valentine IS who has become the Catholic equivalent of Cupid these days. There were Sts. Valentine - several of them, and they seem to have been Roman-era martyrs, but we don't really know more than that, and it does seem a little unfair to have a Feast Day celebrating "That one unspecified Holy guy who had a very common Roman Name." It makes much more sense to give a day to those stalwart (and historically specific) men who converted the Slavs and gave them the beauty/oddity that is the Cyrillic alphabet!!
SO, Happy belated Cyril and Methodius Day!!! Dobrey Dyen!!!
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