The St. Valentine who inspired the holiday may have been two different men.

Officially recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, St. Valentine is known to be a real person who died around A.D. 270. However, his true identity was questioned as early as A.D. 496 by Pope Gelasius I, who referred to the martyr and his acts as “being known only to God.” One account from the 1400s describes Valentine as a temple priest who was beheaded near Rome by the emperor Claudius II for helping Christian couples wed. A different account claims Valentine was the Bishop of Terni, also martyred by Claudius II on the outskirts of Rome. Because of the similarities of these accounts, it’s thought they may refer to the same person. Enough confusion surrounds the true identity of St. Valentine that the Catholic Church discontinued liturgical veneration of him in 1969, though his name remains on its list of officially recognized saints

In all, there are about a dozen St. Valentines, plus a pope.

The saint we celebrate on Valentine’s Day is known officially as St. Valentine of Rome in order to differentiate him from the dozen or so other Valentines on the list. Because “Valentinus”—from the Latin word for worthy, strong or powerful—was a popular moniker between the second and eighth centuries A.D., several martyrs over the centuries have carried this name. The official Roman Catholic roster of saints shows about a dozen who were named Valentine or some variation thereof. The most recently beatified Valentine is St. Valentine Berrio-Ochoa, a Spaniard of the Dominican order who traveled to Vietnam, where he served as bishop until his beheading in 1861. Pope John Paul II canonized Berrio-Ochoa in 1988. There was even a Pope Valentine, though little is known about him except that he served a mere 40 days around A.D. 827.

Valentine is the patron saint of beekeepers and epilepsy, among many other things.

Saints are certainly expected to keep busy in the afterlife. Their holy duties include interceding in earthly affairs and entertaining petitions from living souls. In this respect, St. Valentine has wide-ranging spiritual responsibilities. People call on him to watch over the lives of lovers, of course, but also for interventions regarding beekeeping and epilepsy, as well as the plague, fainting and traveling. As you might expect, he’s also the patron saint of engaged couples and happy marriages.

You can find Valentine’s skull in Rome.

The flower-adorned skull of St. Valentine is on display in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome. In the early 1800s, the excavation of a catacomb near Rome yielded skeletal remains and other relics now associated with St. Valentine. As is customary, these bits and pieces of the late saint’s body have subsequently been distributed to reliquaries around the world. You’ll find other bits of St. Valentine’s skeleton on display in the Czech Republic, Ireland, Scotland, England and France.

Pacific dental group wish all the lovers happy valentines”s day!

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This New Year is incomplete without wishing someone, So we are here providing you Best Happy New Year Wishes 2019 so that you can send them to your loved ones and pray for their happiness in this upcoming New Year. So why are you waiting? Just copy these give New Year 2019 Wishes and Send them to your friends, relatives and share your happiness with them on this wonderful occasion.

“Every New Year people get you some presents but your best present you get never changes,
Your own existence! It is also your best present to others!”

“Wishing you and your family good health, happiness,
success and prosperity in the coming year!
Have a great start to a great year!”

“Just as a new bloom spreads fragrance and freshness around…
May the new year add a new beauty and freshness into your life.
Happy New Year 2019!”

“You are a unique one in my life
I will always value you
Thank you for being a aspect of my life
Happy New Year 2019”

“This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest…
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!”

Pacific dental group wish you all Happy 2019!

Travel
One of the best things about Thanksgiving is spending time with family. Many people live far from family members and travel long distances by car, train, or plane to be with their loved ones. Thanksgiving is the busiest travel day of the year!

The Feast
Traditional foods are a large part of Thanksgiving celebrations. Many families include the entire family in the food preparation. Traditional foods include turkey, stuffing, gravy, sweet potatoes, cornbread, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce. Many people serve pie for dessert at the end of the meal. Popular pie flavors are pumpkin, pecan, sweet potato, and apple.

Vegetarian Foods
Some families choose to serve vegetarian Thanksgiving dinners instead of a stuffed turkey. Some people eat vegetarian turkey, which is made out of tofu. Others prefer to eat squash, salads, or other fruit and vegetable dishes.

The Wishbone
Some families include breaking the turkey’s wishbone as part of their celebration. The wishbone is found attached to the breast meat in the turkey’s chest. After the meat has been removed and the wishbone has had a chance to become dry and brittle, two people each take one end of the bone, make a wish, and pull. Whoever ends up with the larger part of the bone gets their wish!

Pacific dental group wish everyone Happy Thanksgiving!

• Visit the nation’s capital for the National Independence Day Parade.Every year on July 4th, Washington DC has a big parade that anyone can attend. If you go, you’ll see military demonstrations, floats, bands, and more. Usually, the parade is held at 11:45 am.

• Check out Boston’s celebrations.As one of the nation’s oldest cities with a rich history, Boston usually has a large Independence Day Celebration. Along with fireworks, the Boston Pops Orchestra plays patriotic songs for the crowd.

• Visit Philadelphia for historic re-enactments.In Philadelphia, you can visit Independence Hall, where you’ll see historical scenes acted out. You can also listen to a reading of the Declaration of Independence.

• Take a ride to New York City for an epic fireworks display.The largest fireworks display in the nation is the Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks in New York. Plan ahead to visit New York, and view this spectacular display in the evening, preceded by performances by guest stars

Pacific dental group wish everyone enjoys Independence day and join in the celebrations anyway you’d like.

Mother’s day is here! Feel like thanking your mother for everything she’s done for you? Looking for ways to say I Love You to your mom? Do you want to pen a poem for your mother?

1) I wear pants way below my waist. I blast my music past midnight. I do many other things that you never imagined your child doing. But I still appreciate how loving a mother you are. Thanks for everything mom.

2) The top women’s magazines of the world should come to you and ask you for tips on how to be a good mother. Thanks for being the best mommy in the whole world!

3) No matter I old I become, I will never shy away from saying I Love You mom!

4) Forget Superman, Batman, Spiderman and all the other comic book heroes. They should make a movie about you – Supermom. Thanks ma, for being the hero in my life.

5) I don’t need motivational quotes or inspirational messages to give myself a kick start. After all, I have you to look up to! You are my true inspiration. Thanks mom.

6) It would be cliché to say I don’t know what I’d have done without you. But I truly believe that I would have been a nobody if it wasn’t for the TLC you have showered upon me all my life. Thanks!

7) I am not the one to brag, but I can’t help boasting off that I have the best mother in the whole world.
Pacific dental group wish all the mothers Happy mothers day! As a daughter or son, shower our mother with love and care, just like how she did when we were a child. Write her a love note or give her a small gift, make a special day for our mother.

According to historical documents, on the day when Shun, who was one of ancient China’s mythological emperors, came to the throne more than 4000 years ago, he led his ministers to worship heaven and earth. From then on, that day was regarded as the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar. This is the basic origin of Chinese New Year.

China adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1911, so Chinese New Year was renamed the Spring Festival.

This year, Chinese New Year is at February 16^th. The Chinese New year also called Spring Festival. It is a national holiday in China. Government offices, schools, universities and many companies are closed during the period from the Spring Festival Eve to the seventh day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar. However, some enterprises such as banks often arrange for workers to be on shift duty. Public transport is available during the Chinese New Year period.

Pacific dental group wish you Happy Chinese New year, wish all the lucks come to you and your family.

• Before I get completely wasted, make a fool of myself, stumble my way home and pass out, let me wish you a very happy New Year.
• My New Year’s resolution is to be a little less perfect so I can stop making everyone else look so bad.
• This coming year may you have happiness, good health, and prosperity and finally realize how awesome I really am!
• May you grow old enough that you struggle to stay up until midnight, prefer to stay home on New Year’s Eve and are unable to remember what a New Year celebration was like when you were young.
• To all of my Facebook friends, may your Facebook page be full of New Year wishes from people you barely know.
• May your New Year’s resolution be high definition? And may you be too drunk to understand that joke!
• New Year’s resolutions are a to-do list for the first week of January.
• May the New Year hurry up and come so we can finally get past this holiday season and get on with our lives!
• Happy New Year! Here’s hoping that we can stay up later than 9 o’clock.
• My New Year’s resolution is to stop pretending that you don’t annoy me so much.

Pacific dental group wish everyone happy new year, lets bring all our positive energies to 2018 together.

Christmas is celebrated to remember the birth of Jesus Christ, who Christians believe is the Son of God.

The name ‘Christmas’ comes from the Mass of Christ (or Jesus). A Mass service (which is sometimes called Communion or Eucharist) is where Christians remember that Jesus died for us and then came back to life. The ‘Christ-Mass’ service was the only one that was allowed to take place after sunset (and before sunrise the next day), so people had it at Midnight! So we get the name Christ-Mass, shortened to Christmas.

People around the world now celebrate Christmas, whether they are Christians or not. It’s a time when family and friends come together and remember the good things they have. People, and especially children, also like Christmas, as it’s a time when you give and receive presents.

Pacific dental group wish everyone Merry Christmas, and be happy and stay health.

Pilgrims held their second Thanksgiving celebration in 1623 to mark the end of a long drought that had threatened the year’s harvest and prompted Governor Bradford to call for a religious fast. Days of fasting and thanksgiving on an annual or occasional basis became common practice in other New England settlements as well. During the American Revoution, the Continental Congress designated one or more days of thanksgiving a year, and in 1789 George Washington issued the first Thanksgiving proclamation by the national government of the United States; in it, he called upon Americans to express their gratitude for the happy conclusion to the country’s war of independence and the successful ratification of the U.S. Constitution. His successors Hohn Adams and James Madison also designated days of thanks during their presidencies.

In 1817, New York became the first of several states to officially adopt an annual Thanksgiving holiday; each celebrated it on a different day, however, and the American South remained largely unfamiliar with the tradition. In 1827, the noted magazine editor and prolific writer Sarah Josepha Hale—author, among countless other things, of the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb”—launched a campaign to establish Thanksgiving as a national holiday. For 36 years, she published numerous editorials and sent scores of letters to governors, senators, presidents and other politicians. Abraham Lincoln finally heeded her request in 1863, at the height of the Civil War, in a proclamation entreating all Americans to ask God to “commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife” and to “heal the wounds of the nation.” He scheduled Thanksgiving for the final Thursday in November, and it was celebrated on that day every year until 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt moved the holiday up a week in an attempt to spur retail sales during the Great Depression. Roosevelt’s plan, known derisively as Franksgiving, was met with passionate opposition, and in 1941 the president reluctantly signed a bill making Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday in November.

THANKSGIVING TRADITIONS

In many American households, the Thanksgiving celebration has lost much of its original religious significance; instead, it now centers on cooking and sharing a bountiful meal with family and friends. Turkey, a Thanksgiving staple so ubiquitous it has become all but synonymous with the holiday, may or may not have been on offer when the Pilgrims hosted the inaugural feast in 1621. Today, however, nearly 90 percent of Americans eat the bird—whether roasted, baked or deep-fried—on Thanksgiving, according to the National Turkey Federation. Other traditional foods include stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie. Volunteering is a common Thanksgiving Day activity, and communities often hold food drives and host free dinners for the less fortunate.

Parades have also become an integral part of the holiday in cities and towns across the United States. Presented by Macy’s department store since 1924, New York City’s Thanksgiving Day parade is the largest and most famous, attracting some 2 to 3 million spectators along its 2.5-mile route and drawing an enormous television audience. It typically features marching bands, performers, elaborate floats conveying various celebrities and giant balloons shaped like cartoon characters.

Beginning in the mid-20th century and perhaps even earlier, the president of the United States has “pardoned” one or two Thanksgiving turkeys each year, sparing the birds from slaughter and sending them to a farm for retirement. A number of U.S. governors also perform the annual turkey pardoning ritual.

Pacific dental group wish everyone Happy Thanksgiving!

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Raid the nearest grocery store/ pharmacy for candy. Chances are Halloween candy will already be on sale, so you can stock your candy stash for the year at a fraction of the typical price.

Go to the movies. In the dark of theater, costumes are a non-issue, so you don’t have to feel lame and old. Halloween makes a great excuse to splurge on the theater’s king-size candies (or the stuff you scored on sale) — everyone is housing candy today! (And you don’t even have to see something spooky.)

Take your little cousins trick-or-treating. You don’t have to dress up — just bring your phone and be the squad’s official photographer — and unofficial hero to your little cousins’ parents.

Stay home to feed trick-or-treaters. Staying in on Halloween may mean you’re old AF, but hunkering down can be a lazy in to the year’s most avant-garde fashion show. As long as you’re stocked up on candy and down with the doorbell ringing nonstop, you can enjoy all your tiny neighbors’ adorable costumes from the privacy and comfort of your own home. If the waiting game gets boring, you can always spend downtime-plotting ways to spook the next batch of kids.

Go shopping. When you don’t dress up, you save all the money you would have spent on a Halloween costume. To reward yourself, hit the mall to put your savings toward something you’ll actually wear more than once. Stores often stock sweets for trick-or-treaters, and if you happen to be disguising yourself as someone who can really afford to splurge, that candy is as good as yours!

Carve a pumpkin… It’s a festive project that gets better with age — now you can weld a knife without terrifying your parents! Even better: You’re now old enough to operate an oven, so you can make delicious roasted pumpkin seeds. (Just degunk the seeds and toss them with a couple tablespoons of olive oil a few pinches of salt. Then spread the seeds on a cookie sheet and roast at 375 degrees until they brown — usually about seven to 10 minutes.) They’ll help you redeem your diet once your Halloween candy sugar high wears off — they’ll do wonders in your yogurt, sprinkled over salad, or straight up.

Pacific dental group wish everyone happy Halloween!