Tuesday 14 February is SAINT Valentine's Day

 

Shrine of St Valentine

Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Whitefriar St, Dublin [Source]


This post includes material I used on 12 February 2009.


The core of the stories about St Valentine is that this young Roman priest, who was what we would now call a diocesan priest, was martyred for officiating at weddings when Emperor Claudius II, ‘the Cruel’, forbade them because he was engaged in so many wars and needed the young men to fight in them.


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