Nothing is reliably known of St. Valentine except his name and the fact that he died on February 14 as a martyr. The feast of St. Valentine's became associated with romantic love in the middle ages for unknown reasons, but possibly due to fictional traditions that Geoffrey Chaucer made up in his writings.
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Since this is a holiday that has turned into a day about love, I thought I would take the opportunity to correct a pet misinterpretation of mine. 1 Corinthians 13:13: "So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
The "now" in verse 13 is not a temporal now, but a logical now. It means, "therefore" because it is the conclusion to verse 12. Verse 13 must be read in context of the immediately preceding verse 12: "For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known."
Currently, we have faith, hope and love. We will know fully in heaven, so our hope will be fulfilled and we won't need faith, when we see God face to face. Therefore, all that will remain is love.
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