AO: RICHMOND HILL
QiC: Trophy
Date: 02/13/2021
Title: St Valentine Celebration
Number of HIMs: 7
BCG, Coffee Bean, Trophy
Number of FNGs: 0
Name of FNGs:
WarmOrama:
15 side straddle hops
15 super star squats
15 merkins
Side planks
Tha Thang:
History Lesson for the youngins today…
The Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom were martyred. One legend contends that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine’s actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death
According to one legend, an imprisoned Valentine actually sent the first “valentine” greeting himself after he fell in love with a young girl—possibly his jailor’s daughter—who visited him during his confinement. Before his death, it is alleged that he wrote her a letter signed “From your Valentine,” an expression that is still in use today.
The Christian church decided to place St. Valentine’s feast day in the middle of February in an effort to “Christianize” the pagan celebration of Lupercalia. Celebrated at the ides of February, or February 15, Lupercalia was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus.
Lupercalia survived the initial rise of Christianity 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.
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. The English poet Geoffrey Chaucer was the first to record St. Valentine’s Day as a day of romantic celebration in his 1375 poem “Parliament of Foules,” writing, ““For this was sent on Seynt Valentyne’s day / Whan every foul cometh ther to choose his mate.”
Cupid is often portrayed on Valentine’s Day cards as a naked cherub launching arrows of love at unsuspecting lovers. But the Roman God Cupid has his roots in Greek mythology as the Greek god of love, Eros.
History Lesson we'll received by all, now time to mosey. Grab Cindy and head for cover. 45 and rainy this morning!
Valentine’s Day Celebration
V- v ups x100
A- Arm pulls x100
L- Lap around parking lot x 400m
E- Elf on shelf x100
N- Normal squats x100
T- T pushups x100
I- Iron mikes x100
N- Normal curls x100
E- Eights with cindy x100
Good to see BCG + his 2.0s and Coffee Bean + 2.0s…. Nice fellowship afterwards with Coffee and his 2.0 Beans at the Sunrise!
COT:
Pray for those traveling….