February 16, 2013 • 30 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Love Talk Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hello everyone, and welcome to the New Heights Educational Group
talk show. My name is Kayden Bihannah, volunteer for New
Heights Educational Groups and this show is as Valentine's Day Special.
Also here with me is Pamela Clark. Hello, Pamela, Hello,
I'm good. How are you good?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So today is our Valentine's Face Special. So we have
a few fun facts about Valentine's Day from your Tango
dot com and I'd just like to read them out.
Number one hopeless romantic. Valentine's Day is believed to have
begun in two one hundred and seventy a d. When,
under the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius, the second
(01:22):
Bishop Valentine was jailed for performing weddings against the emperor's wishes.
During his time in jail, the Roman Romeo wrote a
love note to the jailer's daughter, signing it from your Valentine.
How romantic. Number two sweet Relief. In the eighteen hundreds,
doctors commonly advise their heartbroken patients to eat chocolate, they
(01:43):
claim to wold suthe their pain. To this day, many
women find it find comfort in a box of chocolate
when dealing with heartbreak. That's a fun. Number three teachers.
Pet teachers received the Mostine's Day cards, followed by children, mothers, wives,
and Yes, pets, puppy love. Upwards of nine million tet
(02:08):
owners buy gifts for their canine companions on Valentine's Day. Hey,
dogs need love to I've never heard of that, actually
buying gifts for your animals on Valentine's Day, but certainly
live to go around right. Number five the Price of love.
Men spend nearly twice as much as women on each
(02:29):
Valentine's Day. This year, the average man will spend more
than one hundred and fifty dollars to let that special
someone know they're loved. Can be quite the call. That's
so cute. And six lovebirds. It was once said that
if a woman saw a robin's flying by on Valentine's Day,
(02:49):
she was destined to marry a sailor. As she saw
a sparrow, she would marry poor, but live a happy
life with their hobby. Seeing a gold finch meant that
there was a rich man in her future. Anyone see
any goldfinches lately? That's interesting. A bird one we'll have
to keep a lookout for the future Valentine's Days to come.
(03:11):
So also for this Valentine's Day special, we'd just like
to share with the audience a little bit of historical
facts on Valentine's Day and how it came to be,
and Panela will start us off with that.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah, please call in. Also, if anyone has any fun
facts or anything interesting they want to share or.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Romantic stories about your Valentine's Days, we'd love to hear them.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
There you go, Okay, So Saint Valentine's Day. Oh that's
from Wikipedia, by the way. Saint Valentine's Day, commonly known
as Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is
observed on February fourteenth each year. It is celebrated in
many countries around the world, although it remains a work
(04:00):
day in most of them. Saint Valentine's Day began as
a literal logical celebration of one or more early Christian
saints named Valentinius. The most popular matrilogy associated with Saint
Valentine was that he was imprisoned for performing weddings for
(04:22):
soldiers who were forbidden to marry, and for ministering the
Christians who were persecuted under the Roman Empire. During his imprisonment,
he said to have Hill, the daughter of his jailor Asterisk.
Legend states that before his execution he wrote from your
(04:43):
Valentine as a farewell to her. Today, Saint Valentine's Day
is an official feast day and Angelic didn't I know
I'm saying the wrong angel looking Communion Sorry. As well
as the Loop Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church also celebrate
(05:04):
Saint Valentine's Day, albeit on July sixth and July thirtieth,
the former date in honor of the Roman Presbyterian Saint Valentine,
in the later date July thirtieth in honor of a
hero march or Valentine. The bishops and the day was
(05:27):
first associated with romantic love in the circle of Jeffrey
Chaucer in the High Middle Ages and when the tradition
of courtly love flourished. By the fifteenth century, it had
evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love
for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greetings,
(05:49):
known as Valentine. This was in the fifteenth century. Valentine's
Day symbols that are used today include the heart shaped
outline and the figure of a wing Cupid. Since the
nineteenth century, hand written Valentines were given way to mass
produce screening cards.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
That was very interesting, huh, that he actually was performing weddings.
I didn't know they were legal for the soldiers. So
he's definitely the bearer of love. And you can see
the connection between the old Valentine's Day and our Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Both got yes.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Ask for a little bit more historical facts on Valentine's Day.
Numerous Christian martyrs were named Valentine in honor of Valentine
Saint Valentine. The Valentine's honored on February fourteenth are Valentine
of Rome and the Valentine of Attorney. Valentine of Rome
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was a priest in Rome who was martyred about two
sixty nine and is buried in the Via Flamena. The
flower crowned skull of Saint Valentine is exhibited in the
Basilica of Santa Maria in cosmedin Rome. Other relics are
found in the Basilica of Santa Prosidi, also in Rome,
as well as at the White Friar Street Carmelite Church
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in Dublin, Ireland. Valentine of Tourney became Bishop of Interama
modern Toorney about on ninety seven eight, and said to
have been martyr during the prosecution under the Emperor Aurelian.
He was also buried in the Via Flamina, but in
a different location than Valentine and Rome. His relics are
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at the Basilica of Saint Valentine Attorney. The Catholic and
Psycopedia also speaks of the third saint named Valentine, who
is mentioned in the early martyologies under the date of
February fourteenth, and he was martyred in Asca with a
number of compar companions, but not much else is known
about this specific Valentine. Saint Valentine's head was preserved in
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the abbey of the New Minster, Winchester and venerated. February
fourteenth is celebrated as Saint Valentine's Day in various Christian denominations.
It has, for example, the Great rank of Commemoration in
the Calendar of Saints in the Anglican communions. In addition,
the feast day of Saint Valentine is also given in
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the Calendar of sage of the Lutheran Church. However, in
nineteen sixty nine revision of the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints,
the feast day of Saint Valentine on February fourteenth was
removed from the general Roman calendar and relegated to particular
local or even national calendars for the following reagion. Though
the memorial of Saint Valentine is ancient, it is left
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to particular calendar, since apart from its name, nothing is
known of Saint Valentine except that he was buried in
the Via Plamata on the February fourteenth. The feast day
is celebrated in Balizan, Malta, where relics of the saint
are claim to be found, and also throughout the world
by traditionalist Catholics who follow the older pre Second Vatican
(09:12):
Council calendar. Saint Valentine's Day in the Eastern Orthodox Church
is celebrated on July sixth, in which Saint Valentine's the
Roman preceador, is honored. Furthermore, that Eastern Orthodox Church observes
the feasts of Hiro Mardyr Valentine, Bishop of Rama July thirtieth,
so it seems to be that there are many Saint Valentines,
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not just the one associated with marrying soldiers in Rome,
and that's interesting to note that is also a very
important religious holiday in certain Christian denominations. There are also
a few legends surrounding Saint Valentine, and Pamela will explain
on this topic.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Yeah, head was preserved.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, the next time you're visiting any of these places,
you might be able to check out one of the
Saint Valentine's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Oh gosh, that's kind of gross.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And so it's a you know, a skeleton hopefully not preserved.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
In that day.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
That's really weird though, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I mean, yeah, it's interesting that they was preserved just ahead,
but yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Bishop Dmitri of the Orthodox Research Institute, in a keynote
of Dress, states that Saint Valentine was a priest near
Rome and about the years to seventy eighty, a time
when the Church was enduring great persecution. His ministry was
to help the Christians to escape this persecution excuse me,
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and to provide them a sacrament such as marriage, which
was outlaw lawed by the Roman emperor at that time.
And records of Saint Valentine were most probably destroyed during
the Diocyanic persecution on early fourth century. In the fifth
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or sixth century, a work called Passio made at Marcia
published an invented story of martyrdom for Saint Valentine of Rome,
probably by borrowing tortures that happened to other saints, as
it was usually made in the literature of that period.
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It states that Saint Valentine was persecuted as a Christian
and interrogated interrogated by Roman Emperor Claudius the second in person.
Claudius was impressed by Valentine and had a discussion with him,
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attempting to get him to convert to Roman Paganism in
order to save his life. Valentine refused and tried to
convert Claudius to Christianity instead. Because of this.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
He was executed.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Before his execution, he is reported to have performed a
miracle by healing Julia, which we had mentioned earlier, the
blind daughter of his jailer Asterius. The jeller's daughter in
his forty four member household, family members and their servants
came to believe in Jesus and were baptized. In addition
to this, Saint Valentine is said, you have performed clandestine
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Christian weddings for soldiers, which we also mentioned earlier, who
were forbidden to marry. The Roman emperor Claudius the Second
supposedly forbade this in order to grow his army, believing
that married men did not make very good soldiers. According
to legend, in order to remind them of God's love
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and to encourage them to remain faithful Christians. Saint Time
is said to have cut hearts from parchment, giving them
two soldiers and persecuted Christians, a possible origin of the
widespread use of hearts on Saint Valentine's day. A later
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passio repeated the legend, adding that Pope Julius the First
built a church over his epicher. It's a confusion with
a fourth century tribune called Valentino, who donated land to
build a church at a time when Julius was the pope.
The legend was ticked up as fact by laterrology, starting
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by Bathes matrology in the eighth century. It was repeated
in this thirteenth century and legend or legend dia Oria.
The book expounded the early medieval acts of several Saint Valentine,
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and the legend was assigned to Valentine's Day under February fourteenth.
There is an additional embellishment to the golden legend, which,
according according to Henry hanser Kelly, was added centuries later
and widely repeated. On the evening before Valentine.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Was to be executed, he would.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Have written the first Valentine card himself, addressed to the
daughter of his jailer Asterius, who was no longer blind,
dining asure Valentine. This expression from your Valentine is still
used today. This legend has been published by both American
Greetings and the History Channel. John Fox, an English historian,
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as well as the Order of the Carmelite, state that
Saint Valentine was buried in the Church of Proxades, Rome,
located near the cemetery of Saint Hippolitus. Sorry if I'm
returning any of these words, Yes, Order that has that,
according to legends, Julia herself planted a peak blossomed alementary
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near his grave. Today the almonary remains as a symbol
of abiding love and friendship.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
All so, it seems we've learned quite a lot about
Saint Valentine's and the legends associated with him. It's actually
very interesting because I've never never read into the Valentine's
Day that we all practice now, and it seems a
much more normal holiday for me now reading about his
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life and all that he's done for people and for
the sake of love. So we also have a little
bit on Valentine's Day during the media full period and
in English Renaissance, and this was when Saint Valentine started
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to be referenced more in the literature of these times,
so using the language of the law courts for the
rituals of courtly love. A High Court of Love was established,
most likely by Isabelle of Bavaria in Paris in fourteen hundred.
It was founded on the sixth of January, the festivity
of a Bavarian Saint Valentine, with the Charter of Love.
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With the Charter of the Court of Love, the court
dealt with love, contracts, betrayals, and violence against women. Judges
were selected by women on a basis of poetry reading.
It was probably based on poems of Grandson and not
on the poems of Chaucer. It was possible that the
actual court never existed and that it was on the
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invention of the princess. This is an interesting little note
that there was an actual court of Love where this
sas would choose men based on how well they were
able to produce poetry.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Also that Courtly Love was a book that was the
actual story that was very well respected at the time.
And actually my husband is a descendant of the author
of that interesting fact.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, it's interesting. Also. The earliest surviving Valentine is since
fifteenth century a poem written by Charles, Duke of Orleans
to his wife, which commences I would love to read it,
but it is in French, so I would not want
to butcher the lovely language of French. But at the
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time it was written as the Duke was being held
in the Tower of London following his capture at the
Battle of Agincourt in fourteen fifteen. The earliest surviving Valentine's
in English appear to be those in the Pats and
Letters written in fourteen seventy seven by Marjorie Bruce to
her future husband John Patson, who she referred to as
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my right well beloved Valentine. Valentine's Day is also mentioned
ruthfully by Ophilia and Hamlet, which I'm for many of
the children my age would be familiar with as having
to read it during our English curriculum in high school.
So I'll just read it once again. Tomorrow is Saint
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Valentine's Day. All the morning, betime, I am a maid
at your window to be your Valentine. Then ups he
rose and donned his clothes, end up the chamber door.
But in the maid that out, the maid never departed more.
And if for those who don't know, it's by William
Shakespeare and Hamlet. Also John Dawn used the legend of
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marriage of the birds as a standing point for his
fal excuse me, episthal lemion, sorry if I'm good turing.
That word celebrated the marriage of Elizabeth, the daughter of
James the First of England and Frederick the fourth, the
fifth of Frederick the fifth, elector Palatine on Valentine's Day.
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The poem goes as such, hale, Bishop Valentines, whose day
this is all the heir is died. I think I
think I embarked into more than I can handle with
these these words from Old English. But but it's okay.
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So basically it's a poem commencing the marriage of his daughter.
I believe that that's that don't embarrass myself. And finally,
the problem that we're all very familiar with, created on
Valentine's Day by in a collection of English nursery rhymes
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Gammer Gurtons Garland in seventeen eighty four, is the roses red,
the Violet's blue, the honeyest sweet, and so are you
That art my love? And I am dying. I drew
thee to my Valentine. The lot was cast, and then
I drew a fortune said it should be you. So
that is the the actual version of the poem that
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we're all very familiar with when we think of Valentine's Day.
So that that concludes most of the facts about Valentine's
Day that we wanted to share today. It was very
interesting to reflect upon. I definitely did not know a
lot of what we were going over and it's very cool.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yeah, what did you get anything for Valentine's Day?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
My father, actually he got me since I'm going away
to college next year, he got me some pillows. And
because I want to be a doctor someday, he got
me pillows. And there it's like a funny brand. Their
organ shaped pillow, so they'll have cute little smilies and
they'll be in shape of a heart. And then he
got me lungs and he got me a brain, and
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so they're cute and they're kind of quirky and uh
so I thought I gotta laugh out of that. They're
really cute and funny. And I also got a shower
bath kind of set so for when I go to
college that should be you know, useful and things like that.
Did you get anything fun for Valentine's Day?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I did.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
My husband got me some roses and a balloon and
a really beautiful card. And our sun brought us both
a box of chocolates. Oh yeah, nice?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Huh? Did we go out anything?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Out to dinner celebrate?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Last night? We went out to Applebee's in a movie? Yeah,
just see the new tie Hard movie.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Oh really, I wanted to. My parents have been wanting
to see that.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
It was great.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I'm very I was so happy it came out. It
was funny that it came out on Valentine's Day, I know,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Great.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
So do you go out or did you get anyone
of Valentine Day present like your parents or anything?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I didn't get my parents Valentine's Day presence. Usually we
kind of usually my father is the bearer of presence
for our family on Valentine's But we did go out
to eat and that was a lot of fun. Had
really great food at a new restaurant that I haven't
been to before. Also the schools, the schools Valentine's was
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really fun. Everybody brings in candy and cake and cupcakes,
and we have notoriously the highest amount of prom questions
that day. So that's where for our seniors, because we
have prom coming up, we'll usually have fun ways of
asking each other and the guy will typically come up
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with an interesting way of asking. So we have had
a couple during Valentine's Day where one girl was asked
out over the speaker, which was really cute, and it
was funny because it was during home room and they
were making the announcements over the loud speaker and then
at the end the guy asked her will you go
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to prom with me? And she was in my class
and she was making a joke because you can't speak
on both sides, so she was making a joke, should
I just go down the hallway and scream yes, because
you can't hear me. He's in the office. So but
he came to the classroom and we all clapped and
she said yes, and so it was very cute. So
we have we have have that going on, and we
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sometimes have carnations that will buy and give out to everybody.
So it's been really a really fun and lovely day.
Always good even if you're a single.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
So what grade are you in now?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I'm in third grade?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Twelfth grade? O'kay was eleven twelve.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
If you keep growing too like my kids did, why
you don't that? Why are you doing that to your parents?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
If I could, I would stay.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Well, since we have a few minutes, I'd like to
try that palm, that that crazy one. I want to
try to butcher it. Yes, I'm looking at it and
it looks like a challenge, so I want to try it.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, Okay, I think you can do it.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Okay, Okay, forgive me if I screw it up to
head hell Bishop Valentine, whose day this is all the
air is thy diocese, and all the chirping choristers and
other birds are thy parishioners. Thou marriest every year, the
Larry Clark and the gray, the gray I think it's
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supposed to be gray, but it's whispering, thou this pharoh
that neglects his life or love The household bird with
red Stomacher, Thou makest the blackbird speed as soon as
do as the goldfinch are the holiquen. The husband cock
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looks out and soon is fed and meets his wife,
which brings her feather bed this day more cheerfully than
ever shine this day, which might enflame thyself. Hold Valentine
by John Dome.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I think you did a wonderful job, especially considering I had.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Great could do that that's worth reading.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
It was that cute. It was a cute home when
we see the bird references the different references that we
had talked about before in the legends. So that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
I throws it off, is you know, it's more from
the original way that they used to spell things, you know, Yeah,
not our English version, but it's still you can see
our words within it. No, that's what intimidates us people. Yes,
I'm sure we butchered enough tonight though, I mean some
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of those names earlier, and so it's just scary.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Yeah, but it's definitely definitely worth reading. I think I
learned a lot from it and it was fun and
cute cute at the same time to learn about how
Saint Valentine, you know, help those who are in love,
and I think it makes the holiday all the more meaningful.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yeah, but next week we are going to discuss als
ama trophic lateral pleurosis, and anyone that wants to talk
about that can call it. And we don't know much
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about it except we found some facts on it, and
we'd love to hear from anybody that does know more
about it. But we do want to get through some
different things and just give people information and maybe some
helpful tips of places that may be able to help them.
And we really appreciate everybody listening to the show tonight.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
And also just to wrap up in case you know,
on our future on our last shows, we've mentioned some
of these information about Ohio in particular as far as
education goes gearing back towards education, and so I like
to read just a couple of statistics that we had
in case anyone in the audience missed them. It's not
(27:51):
a bad thing to share, So I'd just like to
share that according to a task force report to the
State Board of Education in Ohio. Each year, it is
estimated that forty thousand Ohio students drop out of high school,
representing approximately one third of all who begin high school. Also,
a new study by the University of Cincinnati Economic Center
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for Education and Research found that there are nearly seven
hundred and fifty thousand high school dropouts statewide. Only forty
seven of every one hundred Ohio students Ohio dropouts are employed,
compared to seventy out of hundred high suits. Finally, for
each would be dropout that finishes high school, the government
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saves an estimated two thousand, two hundred and forty year
in public assistance costs.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Wow, Yeah, unfortunate when you think about you know, and
a lot of times. We can discuss this further in
our next show, but just to wrap up, I know
that a lot of times that people drop out is
because they're not doing as good an education as they
would like and receiving that encouragement. But hopefully with our
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you know, information on education and our encouragement, we can
hear more people to be excited for education, to feel
encouraged and to you know, pursue an education in a
career in the future.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
All right, Thank you Kayden.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
And thank you Pamela. We'll see you next week.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Yep, great child, unto my soul, So.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Trouples come and my heart burden be. Then I am
saved and wait here inside the
Love Talk Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Hello everyone, and welcome to the New Heights Educational Group
talk show. My name is Kayden Bihannah, volunteer for New
Heights Educational Groups and this show is as Valentine's Day Special.
Also here with me is Pamela Clark. Hello, Pamela, Hello,
I'm good. How are you good?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
So today is our Valentine's Face Special. So we have
a few fun facts about Valentine's Day from your Tango
dot com and I'd just like to read them out.
Number one hopeless romantic. Valentine's Day is believed to have
begun in two one hundred and seventy a d. When,
under the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius, the second
(01:22):
Bishop Valentine was jailed for performing weddings against the emperor's wishes.
During his time in jail, the Roman Romeo wrote a
love note to the jailer's daughter, signing it from your Valentine.
How romantic. Number two sweet Relief. In the eighteen hundreds,
doctors commonly advise their heartbroken patients to eat chocolate, they
(01:43):
claim to wold suthe their pain. To this day, many
women find it find comfort in a box of chocolate
when dealing with heartbreak. That's a fun. Number three teachers.
Pet teachers received the Mostine's Day cards, followed by children, mothers, wives,
and Yes, pets, puppy love. Upwards of nine million tet
(02:08):
owners buy gifts for their canine companions on Valentine's Day. Hey,
dogs need love to I've never heard of that, actually
buying gifts for your animals on Valentine's Day, but certainly
live to go around right. Number five the Price of love.
Men spend nearly twice as much as women on each
(02:29):
Valentine's Day. This year, the average man will spend more
than one hundred and fifty dollars to let that special
someone know they're loved. Can be quite the call. That's
so cute. And six lovebirds. It was once said that
if a woman saw a robin's flying by on Valentine's Day,
(02:49):
she was destined to marry a sailor. As she saw
a sparrow, she would marry poor, but live a happy
life with their hobby. Seeing a gold finch meant that
there was a rich man in her future. Anyone see
any goldfinches lately? That's interesting. A bird one we'll have
to keep a lookout for the future Valentine's Days to come.
(03:11):
So also for this Valentine's Day special, we'd just like
to share with the audience a little bit of historical
facts on Valentine's Day and how it came to be,
and Panela will start us off with that.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah, please call in. Also, if anyone has any fun
facts or anything interesting they want to share or.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Romantic stories about your Valentine's Days, we'd love to hear them.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
There you go, Okay, So Saint Valentine's Day. Oh that's
from Wikipedia, by the way. Saint Valentine's Day, commonly known
as Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is
observed on February fourteenth each year. It is celebrated in
many countries around the world, although it remains a work
(04:00):
day in most of them. Saint Valentine's Day began as
a literal logical celebration of one or more early Christian
saints named Valentinius. The most popular matrilogy associated with Saint
Valentine was that he was imprisoned for performing weddings for
(04:22):
soldiers who were forbidden to marry, and for ministering the
Christians who were persecuted under the Roman Empire. During his imprisonment,
he said to have Hill, the daughter of his jailor Asterisk.
Legend states that before his execution he wrote from your
(04:43):
Valentine as a farewell to her. Today, Saint Valentine's Day
is an official feast day and Angelic didn't I know
I'm saying the wrong angel looking Communion Sorry. As well
as the Loop Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church also celebrate
(05:04):
Saint Valentine's Day, albeit on July sixth and July thirtieth,
the former date in honor of the Roman Presbyterian Saint Valentine,
in the later date July thirtieth in honor of a
hero march or Valentine. The bishops and the day was
(05:27):
first associated with romantic love in the circle of Jeffrey
Chaucer in the High Middle Ages and when the tradition
of courtly love flourished. By the fifteenth century, it had
evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love
for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greetings,
(05:49):
known as Valentine. This was in the fifteenth century. Valentine's
Day symbols that are used today include the heart shaped
outline and the figure of a wing Cupid. Since the
nineteenth century, hand written Valentines were given way to mass
produce screening cards.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
That was very interesting, huh, that he actually was performing weddings.
I didn't know they were legal for the soldiers. So
he's definitely the bearer of love. And you can see
the connection between the old Valentine's Day and our Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Both got yes.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Ask for a little bit more historical facts on Valentine's Day.
Numerous Christian martyrs were named Valentine in honor of Valentine
Saint Valentine. The Valentine's honored on February fourteenth are Valentine
of Rome and the Valentine of Attorney. Valentine of Rome
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was a priest in Rome who was martyred about two
sixty nine and is buried in the Via Flamena. The
flower crowned skull of Saint Valentine is exhibited in the
Basilica of Santa Maria in cosmedin Rome. Other relics are
found in the Basilica of Santa Prosidi, also in Rome,
as well as at the White Friar Street Carmelite Church
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in Dublin, Ireland. Valentine of Tourney became Bishop of Interama
modern Toorney about on ninety seven eight, and said to
have been martyr during the prosecution under the Emperor Aurelian.
He was also buried in the Via Flamina, but in
a different location than Valentine and Rome. His relics are
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at the Basilica of Saint Valentine Attorney. The Catholic and
Psycopedia also speaks of the third saint named Valentine, who
is mentioned in the early martyologies under the date of
February fourteenth, and he was martyred in Asca with a
number of compar companions, but not much else is known
about this specific Valentine. Saint Valentine's head was preserved in
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the abbey of the New Minster, Winchester and venerated. February
fourteenth is celebrated as Saint Valentine's Day in various Christian denominations.
It has, for example, the Great rank of Commemoration in
the Calendar of Saints in the Anglican communions. In addition,
the feast day of Saint Valentine is also given in
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the Calendar of sage of the Lutheran Church. However, in
nineteen sixty nine revision of the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints,
the feast day of Saint Valentine on February fourteenth was
removed from the general Roman calendar and relegated to particular
local or even national calendars for the following reagion. Though
the memorial of Saint Valentine is ancient, it is left
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to particular calendar, since apart from its name, nothing is
known of Saint Valentine except that he was buried in
the Via Plamata on the February fourteenth. The feast day
is celebrated in Balizan, Malta, where relics of the saint
are claim to be found, and also throughout the world
by traditionalist Catholics who follow the older pre Second Vatican
(09:12):
Council calendar. Saint Valentine's Day in the Eastern Orthodox Church
is celebrated on July sixth, in which Saint Valentine's the
Roman preceador, is honored. Furthermore, that Eastern Orthodox Church observes
the feasts of Hiro Mardyr Valentine, Bishop of Rama July thirtieth,
so it seems to be that there are many Saint Valentines,
(09:36):
not just the one associated with marrying soldiers in Rome,
and that's interesting to note that is also a very
important religious holiday in certain Christian denominations. There are also
a few legends surrounding Saint Valentine, and Pamela will explain
on this topic.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Yeah, head was preserved.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, the next time you're visiting any of these places,
you might be able to check out one of the
Saint Valentine's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Oh gosh, that's kind of gross.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And so it's a you know, a skeleton hopefully not preserved.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
In that day.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
That's really weird though, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I mean, yeah, it's interesting that they was preserved just ahead,
but yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Bishop Dmitri of the Orthodox Research Institute, in a keynote
of Dress, states that Saint Valentine was a priest near
Rome and about the years to seventy eighty, a time
when the Church was enduring great persecution. His ministry was
to help the Christians to escape this persecution excuse me,
(10:51):
and to provide them a sacrament such as marriage, which
was outlaw lawed by the Roman emperor at that time.
And records of Saint Valentine were most probably destroyed during
the Diocyanic persecution on early fourth century. In the fifth
(11:13):
or sixth century, a work called Passio made at Marcia
published an invented story of martyrdom for Saint Valentine of Rome,
probably by borrowing tortures that happened to other saints, as
it was usually made in the literature of that period.
(11:35):
It states that Saint Valentine was persecuted as a Christian
and interrogated interrogated by Roman Emperor Claudius the second in person.
Claudius was impressed by Valentine and had a discussion with him,
(11:56):
attempting to get him to convert to Roman Paganism in
order to save his life. Valentine refused and tried to
convert Claudius to Christianity instead. Because of this.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
He was executed.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Before his execution, he is reported to have performed a
miracle by healing Julia, which we had mentioned earlier, the
blind daughter of his jailer Asterius. The jeller's daughter in
his forty four member household, family members and their servants
came to believe in Jesus and were baptized. In addition
to this, Saint Valentine is said, you have performed clandestine
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Christian weddings for soldiers, which we also mentioned earlier, who
were forbidden to marry. The Roman emperor Claudius the Second
supposedly forbade this in order to grow his army, believing
that married men did not make very good soldiers. According
to legend, in order to remind them of God's love
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and to encourage them to remain faithful Christians. Saint Time
is said to have cut hearts from parchment, giving them
two soldiers and persecuted Christians, a possible origin of the
widespread use of hearts on Saint Valentine's day. A later
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passio repeated the legend, adding that Pope Julius the First
built a church over his epicher. It's a confusion with
a fourth century tribune called Valentino, who donated land to
build a church at a time when Julius was the pope.
The legend was ticked up as fact by laterrology, starting
(13:45):
by Bathes matrology in the eighth century. It was repeated
in this thirteenth century and legend or legend dia Oria.
The book expounded the early medieval acts of several Saint Valentine,
(14:07):
and the legend was assigned to Valentine's Day under February fourteenth.
There is an additional embellishment to the golden legend, which,
according according to Henry hanser Kelly, was added centuries later
and widely repeated. On the evening before Valentine.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Was to be executed, he would.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Have written the first Valentine card himself, addressed to the
daughter of his jailer Asterius, who was no longer blind,
dining asure Valentine. This expression from your Valentine is still
used today. This legend has been published by both American
Greetings and the History Channel. John Fox, an English historian,
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as well as the Order of the Carmelite, state that
Saint Valentine was buried in the Church of Proxades, Rome,
located near the cemetery of Saint Hippolitus. Sorry if I'm
returning any of these words, Yes, Order that has that,
according to legends, Julia herself planted a peak blossomed alementary
(15:16):
near his grave. Today the almonary remains as a symbol
of abiding love and friendship.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
All so, it seems we've learned quite a lot about
Saint Valentine's and the legends associated with him. It's actually
very interesting because I've never never read into the Valentine's
Day that we all practice now, and it seems a
much more normal holiday for me now reading about his
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life and all that he's done for people and for
the sake of love. So we also have a little
bit on Valentine's Day during the media full period and
in English Renaissance, and this was when Saint Valentine started
(16:05):
to be referenced more in the literature of these times,
so using the language of the law courts for the
rituals of courtly love. A High Court of Love was established,
most likely by Isabelle of Bavaria in Paris in fourteen hundred.
It was founded on the sixth of January, the festivity
of a Bavarian Saint Valentine, with the Charter of Love.
(16:28):
With the Charter of the Court of Love, the court
dealt with love, contracts, betrayals, and violence against women. Judges
were selected by women on a basis of poetry reading.
It was probably based on poems of Grandson and not
on the poems of Chaucer. It was possible that the
actual court never existed and that it was on the
(16:50):
invention of the princess. This is an interesting little note
that there was an actual court of Love where this
sas would choose men based on how well they were
able to produce poetry.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Also that Courtly Love was a book that was the
actual story that was very well respected at the time.
And actually my husband is a descendant of the author
of that interesting fact.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, it's interesting. Also. The earliest surviving Valentine is since
fifteenth century a poem written by Charles, Duke of Orleans
to his wife, which commences I would love to read it,
but it is in French, so I would not want
to butcher the lovely language of French. But at the
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time it was written as the Duke was being held
in the Tower of London following his capture at the
Battle of Agincourt in fourteen fifteen. The earliest surviving Valentine's
in English appear to be those in the Pats and
Letters written in fourteen seventy seven by Marjorie Bruce to
her future husband John Patson, who she referred to as
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my right well beloved Valentine. Valentine's Day is also mentioned
ruthfully by Ophilia and Hamlet, which I'm for many of
the children my age would be familiar with as having
to read it during our English curriculum in high school.
So I'll just read it once again. Tomorrow is Saint
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Valentine's Day. All the morning, betime, I am a maid
at your window to be your Valentine. Then ups he
rose and donned his clothes, end up the chamber door.
But in the maid that out, the maid never departed more.
And if for those who don't know, it's by William
Shakespeare and Hamlet. Also John Dawn used the legend of
(18:48):
marriage of the birds as a standing point for his
fal excuse me, episthal lemion, sorry if I'm good turing.
That word celebrated the marriage of Elizabeth, the daughter of
James the First of England and Frederick the fourth, the
fifth of Frederick the fifth, elector Palatine on Valentine's Day.
(19:13):
The poem goes as such, hale, Bishop Valentines, whose day
this is all the heir is died. I think I
think I embarked into more than I can handle with
these these words from Old English. But but it's okay.
(19:33):
So basically it's a poem commencing the marriage of his daughter.
I believe that that's that don't embarrass myself. And finally,
the problem that we're all very familiar with, created on
Valentine's Day by in a collection of English nursery rhymes
(19:55):
Gammer Gurtons Garland in seventeen eighty four, is the roses red,
the Violet's blue, the honeyest sweet, and so are you
That art my love? And I am dying. I drew
thee to my Valentine. The lot was cast, and then
I drew a fortune said it should be you. So
that is the the actual version of the poem that
(20:18):
we're all very familiar with when we think of Valentine's Day.
So that that concludes most of the facts about Valentine's
Day that we wanted to share today. It was very
interesting to reflect upon. I definitely did not know a
lot of what we were going over and it's very cool.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yeah, what did you get anything for Valentine's Day?
Speaker 2 (20:41):
My father, actually he got me since I'm going away
to college next year, he got me some pillows. And
because I want to be a doctor someday, he got
me pillows. And there it's like a funny brand. Their
organ shaped pillow, so they'll have cute little smilies and
they'll be in shape of a heart. And then he
got me lungs and he got me a brain, and
(21:03):
so they're cute and they're kind of quirky and uh
so I thought I gotta laugh out of that. They're
really cute and funny. And I also got a shower
bath kind of set so for when I go to
college that should be you know, useful and things like that.
Did you get anything fun for Valentine's Day?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I did.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
My husband got me some roses and a balloon and
a really beautiful card. And our sun brought us both
a box of chocolates. Oh yeah, nice?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Huh? Did we go out anything?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Out to dinner celebrate?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Last night? We went out to Applebee's in a movie? Yeah,
just see the new tie Hard movie.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Oh really, I wanted to. My parents have been wanting
to see that.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
It was great.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I'm very I was so happy it came out. It
was funny that it came out on Valentine's Day, I know,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Great.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
So do you go out or did you get anyone
of Valentine Day present like your parents or anything?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I didn't get my parents Valentine's Day presence. Usually we
kind of usually my father is the bearer of presence
for our family on Valentine's But we did go out
to eat and that was a lot of fun. Had
really great food at a new restaurant that I haven't
been to before. Also the schools, the schools Valentine's was
(22:36):
really fun. Everybody brings in candy and cake and cupcakes,
and we have notoriously the highest amount of prom questions
that day. So that's where for our seniors, because we
have prom coming up, we'll usually have fun ways of
asking each other and the guy will typically come up
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with an interesting way of asking. So we have had
a couple during Valentine's Day where one girl was asked
out over the speaker, which was really cute, and it
was funny because it was during home room and they
were making the announcements over the loud speaker and then
at the end the guy asked her will you go
(23:18):
to prom with me? And she was in my class
and she was making a joke because you can't speak
on both sides, so she was making a joke, should
I just go down the hallway and scream yes, because
you can't hear me. He's in the office. So but
he came to the classroom and we all clapped and
she said yes, and so it was very cute. So
we have we have have that going on, and we
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sometimes have carnations that will buy and give out to everybody.
So it's been really a really fun and lovely day.
Always good even if you're a single.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
So what grade are you in now?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I'm in third grade?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Twelfth grade? O'kay was eleven twelve.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
If you keep growing too like my kids did, why
you don't that? Why are you doing that to your parents?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
If I could, I would stay.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Well, since we have a few minutes, I'd like to
try that palm, that that crazy one. I want to
try to butcher it. Yes, I'm looking at it and
it looks like a challenge, so I want to try it.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Yeah, Okay, I think you can do it.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Okay, Okay, forgive me if I screw it up to
head hell Bishop Valentine, whose day this is all the
air is thy diocese, and all the chirping choristers and
other birds are thy parishioners. Thou marriest every year, the
Larry Clark and the gray, the gray I think it's
(24:54):
supposed to be gray, but it's whispering, thou this pharoh
that neglects his life or love The household bird with
red Stomacher, Thou makest the blackbird speed as soon as
do as the goldfinch are the holiquen. The husband cock
(25:17):
looks out and soon is fed and meets his wife,
which brings her feather bed this day more cheerfully than
ever shine this day, which might enflame thyself. Hold Valentine
by John Dome.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I think you did a wonderful job, especially considering I had.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Great could do that that's worth reading.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
It was that cute. It was a cute home when
we see the bird references the different references that we
had talked about before in the legends. So that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
I throws it off, is you know, it's more from
the original way that they used to spell things, you know, Yeah,
not our English version, but it's still you can see
our words within it. No, that's what intimidates us people. Yes,
I'm sure we butchered enough tonight though, I mean some
(26:16):
of those names earlier, and so it's just scary.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Yeah, but it's definitely definitely worth reading. I think I
learned a lot from it and it was fun and
cute cute at the same time to learn about how
Saint Valentine, you know, help those who are in love,
and I think it makes the holiday all the more meaningful.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yeah, but next week we are going to discuss als
ama trophic lateral pleurosis, and anyone that wants to talk
about that can call it. And we don't know much
(27:01):
about it except we found some facts on it, and
we'd love to hear from anybody that does know more
about it. But we do want to get through some
different things and just give people information and maybe some
helpful tips of places that may be able to help them.
And we really appreciate everybody listening to the show tonight.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
And also just to wrap up in case you know,
on our future on our last shows, we've mentioned some
of these information about Ohio in particular as far as
education goes gearing back towards education, and so I like
to read just a couple of statistics that we had
in case anyone in the audience missed them. It's not
(27:51):
a bad thing to share, So I'd just like to
share that according to a task force report to the
State Board of Education in Ohio. Each year, it is
estimated that forty thousand Ohio students drop out of high school,
representing approximately one third of all who begin high school. Also,
a new study by the University of Cincinnati Economic Center
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for Education and Research found that there are nearly seven
hundred and fifty thousand high school dropouts statewide. Only forty
seven of every one hundred Ohio students Ohio dropouts are employed,
compared to seventy out of hundred high suits. Finally, for
each would be dropout that finishes high school, the government
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saves an estimated two thousand, two hundred and forty year
in public assistance costs.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Wow, Yeah, unfortunate when you think about you know, and
a lot of times. We can discuss this further in
our next show, but just to wrap up, I know
that a lot of times that people drop out is
because they're not doing as good an education as they
would like and receiving that encouragement. But hopefully with our
(29:09):
you know, information on education and our encouragement, we can
hear more people to be excited for education, to feel
encouraged and to you know, pursue an education in a
career in the future.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
All right, Thank you Kayden.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
And thank you Pamela. We'll see you next week.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Yep, great child, unto my soul, So.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Trouples come and my heart burden be. Then I am
saved and wait here inside the
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