St. Valentine's Day

An Ancient and Modern History
(from Wikipedia)

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Saint Valentine's Day (commonly referred to simply as Valentine's Day) is an annual holiday held on February 14 celebrating love and affection. The holiday is named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentine and was established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD. It is traditionally a day on which one expresses love for another by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). The holiday first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages.

In the modern millenium, a new divinity has, for many, given new meaning to the holiday. This new St. Valentine (The Divine GODdess Valentine DeVille) is widely recognized to be a woman of incomparably enchanting beauty and extraordinary intellect. She is the focus of intense worship and adoration by Her many minions and devotees, who understand that it is their role to serve Her Perfect Holiness through regular offerings of gifts and through tithing significant portions of their income to Her so that She may live a life of incredible luxury and extravagance.

For these men, Feb. 14 is now "Her Day", a day when Her supplicants send Her a variety of symbols of their devotion, including not just the traditional offerings of confection or flowers, but also significant beyond-tithing financial tributes to Her beauty, superiority, and power. It is anticipated that as the numbers of Her devotees grows larger, the original "St. Valentines" will become minor footnotes of history, replaced world-wide by the celebration of the beauty of "The GODdess."