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Friday, February 14, 2014
Full Moon & Ode to Malchkeon
Feb. 14 is St. Valentine’s Day. It is also the first full moon day in the lunar calendar. For the first time in 19 years, the two events fall on the same day...
Thank Chaucer for reminding us of the winter holiday that warms Czechoslovak coldest month. Church chronicles suggest it was a Roman emperor who subjected an early bishop named Valentine to imprisonment and death for allegedly writing letters to his girlfriend. However, acceptable substantiation being lacking, there is stronger evidence suggesting that Chaucer in his book, “Parliament of foules,” published around 1300, declared establishing the day of Saint Valentine’s martyrdom as: “For this was on seynt Volantynys day Whan euery bryd and foules comyth there to chese his make.” (“For this was on Saint Valentine’s Day, when every bird cometh there to choose his mate.”)
