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| San Valentino Terni |
Have you ever wonder what means really Valentine´s day and where it comes?
well, here what I found : Numerous early Christian martyrs were named Valentine. The Valentines honored on February 14 are Valentine of Rome and Valentine of Terni. Valentine of Rome was a priest in Rome who was martyred about AD 496 and was buried on the Via Flaminia.
J.C. Cooper, in The Dictionary of Christianity, writes that Saint Valentine was "a priest of Rome who was imprisoned for succouring persecuted Christians." Contemporary records of Saint Valentine were most probably destroyed during this Diocletianic Persecution in the early 4th century.
In the 5th or 6th century, a work called Passio Marii et Marthae published a story of martyrdom for Saint Valentine of Rome, perhaps by borrowing tortures that happened to other saints, as was usual in the literature of that period. The same events are also found in Bede's Martyrology, which was compiled in the 8th century. It states that Saint Valentine was persecuted as a Christian And interrogated by Roman Emperor Claudius II in person. Claudius was impressed by Valentine and had a discussion with him, 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, he was executed. Before his execution, he is reported to have performed a miracle by healing Julia, the blind daughter of his jailer Asterius.
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| Saint Valentine |
The jailer's daughter and his forty-four member household (family members and servants) came to believe in Jesus and were baptized. A later Passio repeated the legend, adding that Pope Julius I built a church over his sepulchre (it is a confusion with a 4th-century tribune called Valentino who donated land to build a church at a time when Julius was a Pope). The legend was picked up as fact by later martyrologies, starting by Bede's martyrology in the 8th century. It was repeated in the 13th century, in Legenda Aurea. The book expounded briefly the Early Medieval acta of several Saint Valentines, and this legend was assigned to the Valentine under February 14.
Another embellishment is that Saint Valentine would have performed clandestine Christian weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry. The Roman Emperor Claudius II supposedly forbade this in order to grow his army, believing that married men did not make for good soldiers. However, this supposed marriage ban was never issued, and in fact Claudius II told his soldiers to take two or three women for themselves after his victory over the Goths.
According to legend, in order "to remind these men of their vows and God’s love, Saint Valentine is said to have cut hearts from parchment", giving them to these soldiers and persecuted Christians, a possible origin of the widespread use of hearts on St. Valentine's Day.
It was really interesting to read about this love fulfilled day. From here I jump into my next Diy for you.
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| Hot Pot |
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| Hot :) |
This What you need:
Some wood plates abut 14 cm x 14cm
drill
wool
scissors
paper
felt or other material
super glue or hot gun glue
First think what you would like to text to your coaster (not too long words). If you have some kind of program with different fonts, use it. I have Illustrator so I picked up font and made the letter big as I wanted to be on my coaster. Then I put blank paper on my screen and copied with free hand on my paper. ( I don't have printer)
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Then I cut the letters out with my scissors and now copied the letters on to my coaster.
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| Letters |
Then pick up your drill and choose smallest drill bed for wood. Start to drill aligned holes on your coaster.
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| Stitching |
Choose your wool colour and start to stitch how you want. At the end to cover all messy part behind the coaster, I super glued piece of felt behind it.
Here are some words
LO BA HAP BEAT
VE BE PY ME
AMO
RE happy doing!! AND HAVE A GREAT VALENTINE
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