St Valentine’s Day – Reclaim Love: St Valentine was a Roman Christian, probably a bishop, who was recognized for his ministry to Christians who had been beneath persecution by the Roman Empire and was martyred and buried close to Rome probably on February 14th 269 AD. Wikipedia has a prolonged entry which matches into the assorted different St Valentines and the legends related to him.
The 14th February was established because the Feast of St Valentine of Rome by the then Pope in AD 496 and far later the celebration was additionally taken up by each Lutheran and Anglican church buildings. The day was dropped from the official Roman Catholic listing in 1969.
The legends which affiliate St Valentine with romantic love got here a lot later, most likely starting within the age of Chaucer within the late 14th century and invented by him and others round him. With many variations he was stated to have fallen in love with the blind daughter of his jailer and shortly earlier than he was executed to have cured her blindness and to have despatched her a observe. Like within the later traditions of Valentines playing cards this one was signed merely: “out of your Valentine.”
St Valentine in addition to being related to lovers can also be the patron saint of epileptics and beekeepers and people struggling psychological sicknesses and probably there are or had been legends related to these too. Elements allegedly of him are stored as relics in church buildings in Rome, Madrid, Dublin and round a dozen different locations round Europe, together with within the Gorbals in Glasgow and Birmingham Oratory.
The Reclaim Love Valentine avenue events across the statue we wrongly name Eros at Piccadilly Circus had been began by the exceptional Irish poet and activist Venus CuMara. They came about on the Saturday closest to the 14th and in 2009 it was really on the 14th. On this publish are just a few of the photographs I took on 14th Feb 2009 on the occasion, and the textual content I wrote in regards to the occasion.
This was the sixth annual Valentine Occasion at Piccadilly Circus, across the statue of Eros, organised by Venus to have fun “to have fun the Biggest factor on Earth and the Biggest factor we’ve got inside…Sure, Love!!!” and it was the most important but, filling the world round with folks.
In addition to the occasion at Picadilly Circus, a minimum of 15 comparable occasions had been going down around the globe, in Eire, France, Luxembourg, Iceland, Finland, Italy, Spain, India, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand …
The climax to the occasion was when all of these current fashioned an enormous circle linking palms within the “Historic Annual Earth Therapeutic Circle.” However for a number of hours all of us loved ourselves, dancing to the samba rhythms of resistance and different music, and having fun with the corporate of different folks and remembering what is de facto essential, not simply on Valentine’s day however the entire of the yr.
Eros could also be dominated by these large neon promoting hoardings the opposite 354 days of the yr, however for someday a minimum of it was surrounded by folks devoted to exhibiting that the perfect issues in life actually are free
There are numerous extra photos on My London Diary at Reclaim Love 6
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