Young Auckland Forgot Saint Valentine's Day
r Yesterday teas St. Valentin r's . Day. j Perchance, our grandmothers i sighed, But the rest of Auckland icent merrily on their tray. Poor St. Valentine. Fast year he. received such a nasty knock. j Under the provisional draft of the new Prayer Book the worthy I saint iras omitted from the calcnI da r. 'Wise church men pleaded that. j in spite of his appellation as ! *•Bishop and Martyr.' it was ! ; really impossible to tell which of ! the several St. Valentines was | really intended. The name of Valentine lent a ! vesture of respectability to the pagan thoughts and ways of the old-time February H P when our fathers celebrated the coming of spring and the mating of the birds. No wonder the Commons r*'jected the innovation. Twas enough to make the Bishop and Martyr turn in his grave.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 279, 15 February 1928, Page 1
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145Young Auckland Forgot Saint Valentine's Day Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 279, 15 February 1928, Page 1
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