Valent-irony

So last week was the lovely holiday we all love to love, Valentine's Day. A little history on the event, it's actually a Catholic holiday (The Feast of St. Valentine). Valentine was a Martyr for the Christian faith, and in the Catholic tradition, vestments are red, indicating blood and passion, for all services on the feast of a Martyr. So that is likely where the red/pink obsession of February 14th comes from. The rest in really up to legend, popular Catholic legend says that Valentine wrote letters to imprisoned Catholics expressing his love (platonic) as well as God's love for them, and encouraging them to keep the faith. Really, he was not so dissimilar to modern foundations that send calling cards and toothbrushes to soldiers overseas, just little reminders that they still matter to us.