Saint Valentine Valentine (Bishop of Interamna, Terni in Italy) is celebrated on July 30. Notwithstanding, because of the relative obscurity of these two saints in the East and since there is no commemoration of St. Valentine in the Greek Orthodox Church, members of the Greek Orthodox Church named Valentinos (male) or Valentina (female) may observe their name day on the Western ecclesiastical calendar date of February 14. The name "Valentinus" does not occur in the earliest list of Roman martyrs, the Chronography of 354, although the patron of the Chronography's compilation was a wealthy Roman Christian named Valentinus. However, it is found
Freedom Day (Belarus) Freedom Day (Belarus) Freedom Day () is an unofficial holiday in Belarus, which is celebrated on March 25 to commemorate the creation of the Belarusian Democratic Republic on that date in 1918. The day has been celebrated as the Independence Day of Belarus by the Belarusian independence movement since the early 1920s. The day has been widely celebrated by the Belarusian diaspora. In the United States, governors and US presidents have traditionally issued official greetings to the Belarusian American community on the occasion of March 25. In today's Belarus, people and groups largely opposed to the current Belarusian government under