Allowed myself a day of reading, as I mull on what my Valentine's Day
turtle project should be. Valentine'sDay is St-Valentine's day in French, and
harps back to the early Christian martyr of the thrid century whose Feast Day is
February 14. Interestingly, there was prior to that in Rome a pagan feast at the date,
where an animal was sacrificed to mark the end of the year. The new year started
on March1.
Valentinus was a given name for male children in Rome; it means strong and
valorous. The first historical Valetinus was a gnostic theologian in the second century AD.
There is some confusion about the precise tennets of Gnosticism, but it existed at the
same time as very early Christianity and overlapped with it. From Wikipedia:
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