Valentine's Day Opinion The Guardian view on a calendrical coincidence: ashes and chocolate Indulgence or self-denial? For the first time since 1945, we all have to choose A worker hands a rose to another in a greenhouse ahead of Valentine’s Day in the Tarsus district of Mersin, Turkey. One of these falls today, when Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday coincide. Both are originally Christian festivals. Before that, there is also this year’s second calendrical coincidence to savour as, in 40 days’ time, Easter falls unusually on April Fools’ Day.

Source: The Guardian February 14, 2018 06:00 UTC