[46], No evidence has been demonstrated to link St. Valentine's Day and the rites of the ancient Roman purification festival of Lupercalia, despite persistent and sometimes detailed claims by many authors to the contrary, nor to any otherwise unspecified Greco-Roman holiday supposed to have celebrated love or fertility. Each day has a specific meaning [35], John Foxe, an English historian, as well as the Order of Carmelites, state that Saint Valentine was buried in the Church of Praxedes in Rome, located near the cemetery of Saint Hippolytus. [70] The Laura Seddon Greeting Card Collection at Manchester Metropolitan University gathers 450 Valentine's Day cards dating from early nineteenth century Britain, printed by the major publishers of the day. Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said the celebration of romantic love was "not suitable" for Muslims. The Lyrick Lark, and the graue whispering Doue, The date '11/11' is intended to resemble the long shape of the cookie. In their political comment they defy fear by saying 'I kiss you amid the Taliban'[103], In Chinese, Valentine's Day is called lovers' festival (simplified Chinese: 情人节; traditional Chinese: 情人節; Mandarin: Qīng Rén Jié; Hokkien: Chêng Lîn Chiat; Cantonese: Chìhng Yàhn Jit; Shanghainese Xin Yin Jiq). [31][29], 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). In order to counter the perceived denaturation of national culture, Dragobete, a spring festival celebrated in parts of Southern Romania, has been rekindled after having been ignored during the Communist years as the traditional Romanian holiday for lovers. [114] Despite this, the celebration is becoming popular among urban youth and the florists expect to sell a great amount of flowers, especially red roses. Seipel, Arnie, Ansgar, 1976, pp. [169] However, it rose in popularity only in the 1990s. [155], "Saudi cleric Sheikh Muhammad Al-'Arifi said on Valentine's Day Eve that celebrating this holiday constitutes bid'a – a forbidden innovation and deviation from religious law and custom – and mimicry of the West. Sunday, February 9, 2020 1 … [73], In the United States, the first mass-produced Valentines of embossed paper lace were produced and sold shortly after 1847 by Esther Howland (1828–1904) of Worcester, Massachusetts. The speculative derivation of sentimental customs from the distant past began with 18th-century antiquaries, notably Alban Butler, the author of Butler's Lives of Saints, and have been perpetuated even by respectable modern scholars. Happy Valentineâs Day to my forever dance partner, @MichelleObama. [106], When we give attention to Valentine's Day we find 68%, including Hindu,[109] Muslim[110] and Christian of people of India not in support of Valentine's Day. February 14 in recent years 2021 (Sunday) 2020 (Friday) 2019 (Thursday) 2018 (Wednesday) 2017 (Tuesday) 2016 (Sunday) 2015 (Saturday)February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 320 days remain until the end of the year (321 in leap years https://t.co/2F13YIykFn, Copyright 2002-2020 © Sapro Systems LLC • [3], There are a number of martyrdom stories associated with various Valentines connected to February 14,[4] including an account of the imprisonment of Saint Valentine of Rome for ministering to Christians persecuted under the Roman Empire in the third century. Day: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31. [47] Valentine's Day has only recently been celebrated as the day of love. Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, [1] is celebrated annually on February 14. 64–76, Ansgar, 1986, Chapter 8, The Hibermantino of the Mating Season, pp. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, St. Valentine is recognized on July 6, in which Saint Valentine, the Roman presbyter, is honoured; in addition, the Eastern Orthodox Church observes the feast of Hieromartyr Valentine, Bishop of Interamna, on July 30. As the name indicates, this day is more about remembering friends, not significant others. Hey! [146], In 2017, the Islamabad High Court banned Valentine's Day celebrations in public places in Pakistan. Romae). Valentine may be defined as [134], In the UK, just under half of the population spend money on their Valentines and around £1.3 billion is spent yearly on cards, flowers, chocolates, and other gifts, with an estimated 25 million cards being sent.[160]. Get the day of the week for: month January February March April May June July August September October November December day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 View the month calendar of September 2020 Calendar including week numbers. And all the chirping Queristers "[80] Since 2001, the Greeting Card Association has been giving an annual "Esther Howland Award for a Greeting Card Visionary". And other birds ar thy parishioners Resident Awareness Week — February 10 to 14, 2020 Chamber of Commerce Week — February 17 to 21, 2020 Heritage Week — February 17 to 23, 2020 BC Seniors Care Providers Day — February 19, 2020 BC Winter Games Although he was leaving treats, many children were scared of this mystical person. The Association of Iran's Cultural and Natural Phenomena has been trying since 2006 to make Sepandarmazgan a national holiday on February 17, in order to replace the Western holiday. [23][58], Three other authors who made poems about birds mating on St. Valentine's Day around the same years: Otton de Grandson from Savoy, John Gower from England, and a knight called Pardo from Valencia. The village gets dressed in its 19th-century costume and put on the program with over 800 people. However, the situation is the reverse of Japan's. 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Ansgar says "It is hardly credible, then, that Pope Gelasius could have introduced the feast of the Purification to counteract the Lupercalia, and in fact the historical records of his pontificate give no hint of such an action.". February 14, 2020: Day of the Week. The charter, allegedly issued by Charles VI of France at Mantes-la-Jolie in 1400, describes lavish festivities to be attended by several members of the royal court, including a feast, amorous song and poetry competitions, jousting and dancing. [106][108] The celebration has caused a sharp change on how people have been displaying their affection in public since the Middle Ages. [29], In Ancient Rome, Lupercalia was observed February 13–15. [175] The holiday has only been observed since the 1960s.[174]. 50th day of Winter. This article is about the romantic holiday and liturgical celebration. The modern cliché Valentine's Day poem can be found in the collection of English nursery rhymes Gammer Gurton's Garland (1784): The honey's sweet, and so are you. The houshold bird with the redd stomacher He said "We are not against love, but we criticize vulgar exhibition of love at public places". [77][78] A writer in Graham's American Monthly observed in 1849, "Saint Valentine's Day ... is becoming, nay it has become, a national holyday. For other uses, see, "St. Valentine's Day" redirects here. [105], In India, in antiquity, there was a tradition of adoring Kamadeva, the lord of love; exemplificated by the erotic carvings in the Khajuraho Group of Monuments and by the writing of the Kamasutra. [151][152] This ban has created a black market for roses and wrapping paper. In Spain, Valentine's Day is known as "San Valentín" and is celebrated the same way as in the rest of the West. The first recorded association of Valentine's Day with romantic love is believed to be in the Parliament of Fowls (1382) by Geoffrey Chaucer, a dream vision portraying a parliament for birds to choose their mates. Outlets that violate this will be legally dealt with", the union warned. [17] Valentine of Rome was a priest in Rome who was martyred in 269 and was added to the calendar of saints by Pope Gelasius I in 496 and was buried on the Via Flaminia. He was martyred in Africa with a number of companions, but nothing more is known about him. [22] A relic claimed to be Saint Valentine of Terni's head was preserved in the abbey of New Minster, Winchester, and venerated. [114], Valentine's Day has been strongly criticized from a postcolonial perspective by intellectuals from the Indian left. Some holidays and dates are color-coded: Red –Federal Holidays and Sundays. [166] The relics of Saint Valentin de Terni, the patron of the St Valentine's Day, are in the Catholic church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Saint-Jean-l’Evangéliste located in the southern France town of Roquemaure, Gard. Lupercalia was a festival local to the city of Rome. Weeks are according Canada calendar rules, Sunday first day and weeks are Sunday to Saturday. November 15, 2020 () 8 30 February 14, 2021 () TBA Reception John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight Oliver's debut show garnered 1.11 million viewers. A previous failed attempt to popularize this celebration had been done by a marshmallow manufacturer who wanted men to return marshmallows to women. It is celebrated on the 15th day of the month of Av (usually in late August). I drew thee to my Valentine: [29][30] It states that Saint Valentine was persecuted as a Christian and interrogated by Roman Emperor Claudius II in person. "[53][54], "For this was on Saint Valentine's DayWhen every bird comes there to choose his matchOf every kind that men may think ofAnd that so huge a noise they began to makeThat earth and air and tree and every lakeWas so full, that not easily was there spaceFor me to stand—so full was all the place. [63], The earliest surviving valentines in English appear to be those in the Paston Letters, written in 1477 by Margery Brewes to her future husband John Paston "my right well-beloved Valentine".[64]. Many films have been produced depicting various aspects of Valentine's Day, including A Charlie Brown Valentine (2002). Today, the almond tree remains a symbol of abiding love and friendship. (federal) = federal holidays, (abbreviation) = state/territorial holidays, (religious) = religious holidays, (cultural) = holiday related to a specific racial/ethnic group or sexual minority, (week) = week-long holidays, (month) = month-long holidays, (36) = Title 36 Observances and Ceremonies Number of weeks in 2020 year is 53 weeks. In modern Israeli culture Tu B'Av is a popular day to proclaim love, propose marriage, and give gifts like cards or flowers. When the valentine-exchange cards made in school activities are included the figure goes up to 1 billion, and teachers become the people receiving the most valentines. David James Harkness, Legends and Lore: Southerns Indians Flowers Holidays, vol. ", Readers have uncritically assumed that Chaucer was referring to February 14 as Valentine's Day. Millions of people use, every year, digital means of creating and sending Valentine's Day greeting messages such as e-cards, love coupons or printable greeting cards. [172] Its date used to vary depending on the geographical area, however nowadays it is commonly observed on February 24. There were 331 days remaining until the end of the year. "[79] The English practice of sending Valentine's cards was established enough to feature as a plot device in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mr. Harrison's Confessions (1851): "I burst in with my explanations: 'The valentine I know nothing about.' [51], Alban Butler in his Lifes of the Principal Saints (1756–1759) claimed without proof that men and women in Lupercalia drew names from a jar to make couples, and that modern Valentine's letters originated from this custom. February 2020 Calendar. February 21, 2020 was the 52 nd day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. [131][132], In Japan, the romantic "date night" associated to Valentine's Day is celebrated on Christmas Eve. In Estonia, Valentine's Day was originally called valentinipäev and later also sõbrapäev ('Friend's Day') as a calque of the Finnish term.[165]. [106] This repression of public affections began to loosen in the 1990s. [93], In Brazil, the Dia dos Namorados (lit. In a 2016 poll conducted by Channel 4 for Valentine's Day, Jane Austen’s line, “My heart is, and always will be, yours”, from her novel Sense and Sensibility and said by Edward Ferrars (Hugh Grant) to Elinor Dashwood (Emma Thompson) in the acclaimed 1995 film adaptation, was voted the most romantic line from literature, film and TV by thousands of women. About February 8, 2020. This page lists all weeks in 2020. 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February 23, 2020 was ... 54th day of the year. On April 14 (Black Day), those who did not receive anything on February or March 14 go to a Chinese-Korean restaurant to eat black noodles (짜장면 jajangmyeon) and lament their 'single life'. The patron of love was Saint Anthony, whose day has been celebrated on June 13. This contrasts with honmei-choko (本命チョコ, lit. Monthly calendar for the month February in year 2020. Bridge Logos Foundation. Today, Tu B'Av is celebrated as a second holiday of love by secular people (along with Valentine's Day), and it shares many of the customs associated with Saint Valentine's Day in western societies. [137][138], On Valentine's Day 2011, West Malaysian religious authorities arrested more than 100 Muslim couples concerning the celebration ban. [130], In Japan, Morozoff Ltd. introduced the holiday for the first time in 1936, when it ran an advertisement aimed at foreigners. In ancient times girls would wear white dresses and dance in the vineyards, where the boys would be waiting for them (Mishna Taanith end of Chapter 4). "true feeling chocolate"), chocolate given to a loved one. [84], The rise of Internet popularity at the turn of the millennium is creating new traditions. [122] One of the reasons for Valentine's Day breaking out into the general population in Iran is the change in relations between the sexes, which are no longer bound to marriage for two decades. [30] It was repeated in the 13th century, in The Golden Legend. Calculate! [41], Saint Valentine supposedly wore a purple amethyst ring, customarily worn on the hands of Christian bishops with an image of Cupid engraved in it, a recognizable symbol associated with love that was legal under the Roman Empire;[39][42] Roman soldiers would recognize the ring and ask him to perform marriage for them. [57], Jack B. Oruch notes that the date on which spring begins has changed since Chaucer's time because of the precession of the equinoxes and the introduction of the more accurate Gregorian calendar only in 1582. [81] The mid-19th century Valentine's Day trade was a harbinger of further commercialized holidays in the U.S. to follow.[82]. The feast day is still celebrated in Balzan (Malta) where relics of the saint are claimed to be found, and also throughout the world by Traditionalist Catholics who follow the older, pre-Second Vatican Council calendar (see General Roman Calendar of 1960). [106][108] Shiv Sena and the Sangh Parivar have asked their followers to shun the holiday and the "public admission of love" because of them being "alien to Indian culture". "Je suis desja d'amour tanné [72] The collection appears in Seddon's book Victorian Valentines (1996). If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Kin'yōbi. [49][notes 2][50] Also, the dates do not fit because at the time of Gelasius I, the feast was only celebrated in Jerusalem, and it was on February 14 only because Jerusalem placed the Nativity of Jesus (Christmas) on January 6. Leigh Eric Schmidt, "The Fashioning of a Modern Holiday: St. Valentine's Day, 1840–1870". The Jamaat-e-Islami political party has called for the banning of Valentine's Day celebration. In 18th-century England, it grew into an occasion in which couples expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). Henry Ansgar Kelly has observed that Chaucer might have had in mind the feast day of St. Valentine of Genoa, an early bishop of Genoa who died around AD 307; it was probably celebrated on 3 May. [29] Honoring the first anniversary of the engagement of fifteen-year-old King Richard II of England to fifteen-year-old Anne of Bohemia,[52] Chaucer wrote (in Middle English): "For this was on seynt Valentynes dayWhan every foul cometh there to chese his makeOf every kynde that men thynke mayAnd that so huge a noyse gan they makeThat erthe, and eyr, and tre, and every lakeSo ful was, that unethe was there spaceFor me to stonde, so ful was al the place. [113] Although these protests are organized by political elites, the protesters themselves are middle-class Hindu men who fear that the globalization will destroy the traditions in their society: arranged marriages, Hindu joint families, full-time mothers, etc. A proverb says that "Saint Valentine brings the keys of roots". [120] Specialists in the country say that banning Valentine's Day would encourage the youth more towards it. Some of them would be charged in the Shariah Court for defying the department's ban against the celebration of Valentine's Day. [25][26][27], J.C. Cooper, in The Dictionary of Christianity, writes that Saint Valentine was "a priest of Rome who was imprisoned for succouring persecuted Christians. [145], In 2016, local governing body of Peshwar officially banned the celebration of Valentine's Day in the city. [46] This day more cheerfully than ever shine, This day which might inflame thy selfe old Valentine.". 131–138, CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (, Charles Panati (1987). [173], In Denmark and Norway, February 14 is known as Valentinsdag, and it is celebrated in much the same manner as in the United Kingdom. Official site of The Week Magazine, offering commentary and analysis of the day's breaking news and current events as well as arts, entertainment, people and gossip, and political cartoons. 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In the later 20th and early 21st centuries, these customs spread to other countries, like those of Hallowe'en, or than aspects of Christmas, (such as Santa Claus). [83] Boxes of filled chocolates quickly became associated with the holiday. Chaucer most probably predated all of them; but due to the difficulty of dating medieval works, it is not possible to ascertain which of the four may have influenced the others. [140][141] In both the states of Sabah and Sarawak, the celebration is usually common with flowers. [52][55][56] A treaty providing for Richard II and Anne's marriage, the subject of the poem, was signed on May 2, 1381. Valentine's Day is celebrated in many East Asian countries with Singaporeans, Chinese and South Koreans spending the most money on Valentine's gifts. That is why each year the printing works owners’ union issues an instruction on the ban of Valentine's Day, imposed by Iranian authorities which denies them from selling gifts such as cards, and boxes with the symbols of hearts and red roses. [134], In Taiwan, traditional Qixi Festival, Valentine's Day and White Day are all celebrated. !â Corrections & Suggestions [citation needed], Islamic officials in West Malaysia warned Muslims against celebrating Valentine's Day, linking it with vice activities. The February 14 Valentine's Day is not celebrated at all because it usually falls too little before or too little after the Brazilian Carnival[97] – that can fall anywhere from early February to early March and lasts almost a week. It was spread due to the programs in commercial TV channels, such as MTV, dedicated radio programs, and love letter competitions, in addition to an economical liberalization that allowed the explosion of the valentine card industry. [121] Although Valentine's Day is not accepted/approved by any institution or rule in the country and has no official status, it's highly accepted among a large part of the population. 8th Wednesday of 2020. on the 8th week of 2020 (using US standard week number calculation). It is celebrated on February 7 every year followed by propose day, chocolate day, teddy day, promise day, hug day, kiss day, and Valentine's Day. As of May 6, 252 million vaccine doses have been administered. His relics are at the Basilica of Saint Valentine in Terni (Basilica di San Valentino). [29] 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. Wan Mohamad Sheikh Abdul Aziz, head of the Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim), which oversees the country's Islamic policies said that a fatwa (ruling) issued by the country's top clerics in 2005 noted that the day 'is associated with elements of Christianity,' and 'we just cannot get involved with other religions' worshipping rituals.' [168], Saint Valentine's Day was introduced to Poland together with the cult of Saint Valentine via Bavaria and Tyrol. There were 314 days remaining until the end of the year. Day of the Week: Saturday. They also criticize mainstream media attacks on Indians opposed to Valentine's Day as a form of demonization that is designed and derived to further the Valentine's Day agenda. Friends, especially girls, may exchange chocolate referred to as tomo-choko (友チョコ); from tomo meaning "friend". [34] This legend has been published by both American Greetings and The History Channel. [152][153] In 2012, the religious police arrested more than 140 Muslims for celebrating the holiday, and confiscated all red roses from flower shops. Unlike western countries, gifts such as greeting cards,[133] candies, flowers, or dinner dates[134] are uncommon, and most of the gifts-related activity is about giving the right amount of chocolate to each person. The U.S. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately 190 million valentines are sent each year in the US. It has been celebrated as the day when the first work in the vineyards and in the fields commences. The jailer's daughter and his forty-six member household (family members and servants) came to believe in Jesus and were baptized. [30] The legend was picked up as fact by later martyrologies, starting with Bede's martyrology in the 8th century. Valentine surged in lookups toward the end of this week, as Valentine’s Day (the holiday which falls on February 14th) approached. 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