Valentines Day
Saint Valentine's Day, also known as Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine,[1] is observed onfebruary 14 each year. It is celebrated in many countries around the world, although it is not a holiday in most of them.St. Valentine's Day began as a liturgical celebration of one or more early Christian saints named Valentinus. Several martyrdom stories were invented for the various Valentines that belonged to February 14, and added to later martyrologies.[2] A popular hagiographical account of Saint Valentine of Rome states that he was imprisoned for performing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry and for ministering to Christians, who were persecuted under the Roman Empire. According to legend , during his imprisonment, he healed the daughter of his jailer, Asterius. An embellishment to this story states that before his execution he wrote her a letter signed "Your Valentine" as a farewell.[3] Today, Saint Valentine's Day is an official feast day in the Anglican Communion,[4]as well as in the Lutheran Church.[5] The Eastern Orthodox Church also celebrates Saint Valentine's Day, albeit on July 6 and July 30, the former date in honor of the Roman presbyter Saint Valentine, and the latter date in honor of Hieromartyr Valentine, the Bishop of Interamna (modern Terni). In Brazil, the Dia de São Valentim is recognized on June 12.The day was first associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. In 18th-century England, it evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). Valentine's Day symbols that are used today include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupic. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have given way to mass-produced
Indepence Day
The February 27 is established as the Day of National Independence of the Dominican Republic . in what is now the Dominican Republic , it commemorates the declaration of separation from the Spanish-speaking part of the island of Santo Domingo regarding western occupied long ago by French-speaking inhabitants that populated the western part of the island that Haiti was called .
These had been colonized and enslaved after several covenants and agreements between France and Spain , who were , as they are today , two major colonial powers . That was until the years 1803 and 1804 that Toussaint and Dessalines , two Haitian slaves rebelled and declared separation which first Toussaint and independence after Haiti Dessalines proclaimed by the illiterate compared to France, which was the colonizing country and slave , as we have said above.
For reasons that deserve to be discussed and weighed well elucidated, the February 27, 1844 saw the declaration of Dominican Haitian separation , and this, in time, we have tried to call date of Independence.
In Haiti , from 1804 onwards developed one of the most spectacular processes epics for independence and fought in Indo Caribbean .
Haiti was the scene of a historical process in the national struggle for independence to the social struggle against slavery and the slave owners and colonialists linked and against the agents of colonialism there were represented by mulattoes or " afransechices " as slaves and free blacks and contemptuously called them justly and every reason .
After many vicissitudes of history characterized by great events and real tragedies , Haitian mulattoes made common cause with blacks to truth and united in Haiti around the idea of attacking the emerging nation in the eastern part of the island - the future Republic Dominican who was still precariously held by the Spanish colonialists , and was already taking shape as what the Dominican Republic , that is, as a nation each and every one of his essential duties .
