February LDL

Jerry Gaudet reminds us that:

This month's "LDL" (Let's do lunch) will be held on

Tuesday, February 11, 2014, 11:30 AM

at "Jimmies" Restaurant in Mint Hill.

You are invited to join us. Spread the word! Invite other classmates to come! Even better, bring someone with you! Be sure YOU, come!

February: This month is associated with St. Valentine’s Day and red roses. However, the flower for the month is Violet. The flower symbolises faithfulness, humility and chastity. Gifting violets in the Victorian era conveyed the message’ I’ll always be true’. The flower is found in shades of blue, mauve as well as yellow and cream.

According to the internet, the origin of Valentine's Day began with something called Lupercalia.

It had to do with a bunch of Roman Priests who would gather at a sacred cave where the infants Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were believed to have been cared for by a she-wolf or lupa. The priests would sacrifice a goat, for fertility, and a dog, for purification. They would then strip the goat's hide into strips, dip them into the sacrificial blood and take to the streets, gently slapping both women and crop fields with the goat hide.....and that's more than you want to know about that.

Lupercalia survived the initial rise of Christianity and but was outlawed—as it was deemed “un-Christian”--at the end of the 5th century, when Pope Gelasius declared February 14 St. Valentine's Day. It was not until much later, however, that the day became definitively associated with love. During the Middle Ages, it was commonly believed in France and England that February 14 was the beginning of birds' mating season, which added to the idea that the middle of Valentine's Day should be a day for romance. 

Attention:  If anyone remembers to bring a camera to the event, your humble webmaster would greatly appreciate your taking some snapshots and emailing them to  shephard@gmail.com  so I can share them with this website's thousands of readers!
Thanks,Ed