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Any language can be a powerful tool for national identity. At some point, for the month of August, we look forward to the celebration with all the preparations leading to it.

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I grew up when Valentine’s Day was a strange custom, too difficult for young people to comprehend, much less practice.

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When the prices of red roses are ridiculously high, restaurants are filled to the brim, credit cards swiped constantly and chaotic traffic dominates the streets, it must be February 14. And whoever invented Valentine’s Day must be a marketing genius!

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Some reading reveals that olden Valentine folklore may refer to several saints with common Saint Valentine appellation, although only two traceable martyr priests had celebratory feasts on the same day, February 14.

[DatePublished] => 2011-02-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133156 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471332 [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 244036 [Title] => The undying appeal of the love letter [Summary] => When I was younger I had visions of my grandchildren visiting my geriatric home and playing in the attic only to stumble upon a long forgotten cedar chest filled with sweet smelling lace, beautiful dresses and ribbons of years past, and finally unearthing a stack of brittle but still lovely envelopes bound together by a satin cornflower blue ribbon and filled with honey-dipped love letters from my past.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134746 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1513777 [AuthorName] => MEANWHILE By Michelle Katigbak [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 238810 [Title] => Happy Valentine’s to all who love each other [Summary] => Knock! Knock!

Who is there?

Atlas.

Atlas who?

At last Valentine’s Day is here.


We start this column with that reminder because in the elevator we heard someone ask, Valentines na ba? Another answer Hindi pa time. February pa ’yun."
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 195222 [Title] => Tomorrow we celebrate the feast of love [Summary] => Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s Day/All in the morning betime/ And I a maid at your window/To be your Valentine.

There are two feasts that we have assimilated from the American regime: Valentine’s Day and Halloween. By coincidence, both feasts are connected to the saints. In the case of Valentine, it is actually an ancient pagan feast that the Romans called Lupercalia that they held to mark the mating season of birds. In his Assembly of Fowls, Geoffrey Chaucer noted this by saying: For this was on Saint Valentine’s Day When every fowl cometh to choose her mate.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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Any language can be a powerful tool for national identity. At some point, for the month of August, we look forward to the celebration with all the preparations leading to it.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134091 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1461983 [AuthorName] => Ligaya Rabao-Visaya [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 909585 [Title] => The commercialization of love [Summary] =>

I grew up when Valentine’s Day was a strange custom, too difficult for young people to comprehend, much less practice.

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When the prices of red roses are ridiculously high, restaurants are filled to the brim, credit cards swiped constantly and chaotic traffic dominates the streets, it must be February 14. And whoever invented Valentine’s Day must be a marketing genius!

[DatePublished] => 2011-03-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133921 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1284784 [AuthorName] => Dr. Nestor Alonso ll [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => cebu-lifestyle [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 657315 [Title] => Valentine, not just for the birds [Summary] =>

Some reading reveals that olden Valentine folklore may refer to several saints with common Saint Valentine appellation, although only two traceable martyr priests had celebratory feasts on the same day, February 14.

[DatePublished] => 2011-02-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133156 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1471332 [AuthorName] => Lorenzo Paradiang Jr. [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 244036 [Title] => The undying appeal of the love letter [Summary] => When I was younger I had visions of my grandchildren visiting my geriatric home and playing in the attic only to stumble upon a long forgotten cedar chest filled with sweet smelling lace, beautiful dresses and ribbons of years past, and finally unearthing a stack of brittle but still lovely envelopes bound together by a satin cornflower blue ribbon and filled with honey-dipped love letters from my past.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134746 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1513777 [AuthorName] => MEANWHILE By Michelle Katigbak [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 238810 [Title] => Happy Valentine’s to all who love each other [Summary] => Knock! Knock!

Who is there?

Atlas.

Atlas who?

At last Valentine’s Day is here.


We start this column with that reminder because in the elevator we heard someone ask, Valentines na ba? Another answer Hindi pa time. February pa ’yun."
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 195222 [Title] => Tomorrow we celebrate the feast of love [Summary] => Tomorrow is Saint Valentine’s Day/All in the morning betime/ And I a maid at your window/To be your Valentine.

There are two feasts that we have assimilated from the American regime: Valentine’s Day and Halloween. By coincidence, both feasts are connected to the saints. In the case of Valentine, it is actually an ancient pagan feast that the Romans called Lupercalia that they held to mark the mating season of birds. In his Assembly of Fowls, Geoffrey Chaucer noted this by saying: For this was on Saint Valentine’s Day When every fowl cometh to choose her mate.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135432 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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