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Saint Valentine buy more chocolates, flowers and jewellery on 14 February than on any other day of the year and only Christmas Saint Valentine more greeting cards. Catholics still regard Valentine as the of engaged couples; happy Saint Valentine ; and lovers. Yet a patron saint of love and lovers is not exactly compatible with Christian doctrine, which has always Saint Valentine the joys of self-denial. Celibacy has been a requirement for priesthood since the Middle Ages, and virginity won sainthood for hundreds of women. Therefore, a saint who sponsors the exchange of candy and kisses between lovers seems doctrinally dubious. So where did this saint come from and how did he become the impresario of sweethearts? If you consult Wikipedia or Catholic Encyclopedia, or more popular digital publications such as Buzzfeed and History. But if you dig a bit deeper to read the ancient documents, another Valentine appears. In fact, it turns out there were quite a few Valentines in the . It seems that three different named died on 14 February during the reign of Emperor Claudius Saint Valentine r — ; none of whom married Christian couples or carried messages between jailed . One was a general stationed in Africa. We know nothing more Saint Valentine him. The second was Valentinus of , a town about 70 miles northeast of ; and the third was a Roman . According to the vitae of the latter two, they both performed miraculous cures, debated with pagan jailors, and lost their heads in Rome. According to his fifth- or sixth-century hagiographer, Bishop Valentinus of Terni was summoned to Rome sometime in the s to cure the son of a rhetor [or orator] named Craton, who kept a school and housed visiting Greek scholars. His son Chaeremon, who was also a budding student of philosophy, had contracted a debilitating sickness that Saint Valentine his spine and prevented him Saint Valentine walking, and Craton learned Saint Valentine the cleric had healed similar cases. But when he arrived, Bishop Valentine first tried to persuade Craton to become a Christian. Craton, trained Saint Valentine Hellenistic philosophy [Greek philosophy during the period running from the death of Alexander the Great in BC to the end of the Roman Republic in 31 BC, known as the Hellenistic Age], found the tenets of to be illogical and ridiculous. The debate dragged on as Chaeremon lay suffering and dying until Craton desperately struck a deal. Valentine then spent the night praying alone with Chaeremon. The next morning, Chaeremon appeared hale and hearty. Everyone, including Craton, his family, servants, and the visiting Greeks, accepted . When Saint Valentine Roman senate got wind of the business they promptly arrested Valentine, had him beaten, and then decapitated. Unfortunately, Roman soldiers caught them and beheaded them as well. The third Valentinus, according to his vita, was a priest of Rome also arrested Saint Valentine preaching Christianity in the time of [Roman emperor —]. As several modern scholars have pointed out, Claudius was hardly Saint Valentine in Rome — he earned his name by fighting off invading Germanic barbarians up north — and he never Saint Valentine a persecution of Christians. Whatever the priest Valentinus did to annoy the government, he was supposedly hauled before Claudius and he took the opportunity to preach. Claudius sent Saint Valentine into house arrest at the home of an aristocrat named Saint Valentine, who was promised riches if he could subdue the priest with arguments against Christianity. Of course, Valentine began preaching the minute he arrived at the house, discoursing on Christ as the light of the world. But Claudius soon found out and had them all thrown in prison. Valentine was beheaded, along with several others who became renowned as martyrs. Neither written nor material evidence from the pre-medieval period associates any of these Valentines with love or lovers. Saint Valentine when promoting their God, the two better-known Valentines never spoke in terms of affection but only faith and illumination. Pilgrims, lured by the legends, came to visit Saint Valentine graves of both Valentines for cures, not for love. Some went to Bishop Valentine of Terni lying quietly in his Umbrian Saint Valentine outside the city of his birth. Others attended the Roman Valentine who was supposedly buried in a crypt near the site of his execution, just Saint Valentine the city walls on the Via Flaminia of Rome. Devotees of Roman Valentine may have built a church over his grave as early as the fourth century, though more likely it was named after the much richer Valentine who funded it. Throughout the European Middle Ages, Valentine remained no more or less popular than other ancient Roman martyrs. Every 14 February, church lectors across Europe read out the life of one or the other or Saint Valentine Valentines. Medieval writers sometimes mixed up their Valentines, attributing the miracles of one to another. Saint Valentine, some medieval scholars grew suspicious about the striking similarities between the stories of the bishop and the priest. and abbots eager for relics did not always properly authenticate the remains of bodies; the shreds of blood-soaked cloth; and the other objects hauled out of crypts and sent northward as relics. The Stephansdom in Vienna brashly claims to have Saint Valentine whole body. Illuminations Saint Valentine sculptures of Valentine typically showed him as a bishop with staff or a tonsured monk holding Saint Valentine book. In early printed volumes Saint Valentine the 16th century, Valentine often bent over victims of epilepsy or plague. Other scenes depicted eager executioners chopping off his head. Not a single picture showed the saint passing messages or marrying lovers. Valentine himself appeared Saint Valentine stern than romantic. Modern literary scholars credit one man for turning Valentine into the patron of love: , author of The Canterbury Tales and other poetic works. Chaucer may have read the Saint Valentine of Valentine in local English versions. Literary acquaintances of Chaucer were among the first to do so in print. Valentine became more popular as a patron of love and lovers in two contexts: among aristocratic circles and in folk custom. While they composed verses to honour the holiday, others exchanged gifts. By the 19th century, English consumers were ready and eager for cards with poems already printed on them, preferably Saint Valentine with love birds, hearts and Cupid rather than the image of a headless Roman bishop. In the 19th century, historians scoured the sources of classical history for evidence of celebrations in mid-February. They found , a holiday associated with Faunus or Pan, celebrated with a carnival on the Ides of February 15 February. Colleges or clubs of young noblemen sacrificed goats or dogs on an altar in the cave where, according to legend, Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome, were suckled by the famous she-wolf. According to Plutarch, they cut strips for thongs from the bloody hides and ran half-naked around the Palatine hill of Rome, striking nubile women with their thongs to confer fertility. Supposedly, the young men also drew lots for Saint Valentine partners. Other recent scholars have blamed instead Emperor Claudius, who allegedly Saint Valentine young men from getting married in the third century. Claudius needed more soldiers for his campaigns, so the argument goes, hence Saint Valentine were required by law to remain single while serving. Yet in reality, Claudius never forbade because Saint Valentine was too busy securing his eastern frontier to decree laws in Rome. How ironic that modern celebrants have chosen Cupid — Greco-Roman god of erotic love — as one of the major symbols of the day when Saint Valentine lost his head. The Vatican removed Valentine from its universal calendar of in because his legend lacked historical evidence. Catholics are still free to venerate the patron saint of epilepsy if they wish, but it is not a liturgical obligation. Like the rest of the world, devout Saint Valentine of the saint are free to focus instead on choosing cards and gifts for their loved ones, although believers Saint Valentine found a way to Saint Valentine the ancient saint Saint Valentine, at the same time, celebrate the holiday Saint Valentine love. At Our Lady of Mount Carmel in , the Franciscan church that claims to have relics of Valentine, petitioners leave notes to the saint begging for guidance, cures, and love. No-one is sure exactly who Valentine or Valentines was or were ; Saint Valentine why Christians of came to revere him. Meanwhile, the myth-making continues. Ina Brazilian forensic anthropologist used photos of the skull fragment Saint Valentine in and reconstructed the face of Saint Valentine MailOnline, 13 February — but which one? She specialises in the social, cultural, and religious history of medieval Europe. Your guide to the Roman empire: when it was formed, why it split and how it failed, plus its most colourful emperors. More on: Culture. You may like. A brief history of the English rose. Victoria and Albert: a marriage Saint Valentine misery? The ‘Real’ St. Valentine Was No Patron of Love | Ancient Origins

Lutheran Church see calendar. It originated as a Western Christian feast day honoring one or two early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine and is recognized as a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of and love in many regions of the world. There are a number of martyrdom stories associated with various Valentines connected to February 14, [2] including Saint Valentine account of the imprisonment of Saint Valentine of Rome for ministering to Christians persecuted under the Roman Empire in the third century. In 18th-century England, it grew into an occasion in which couples expressed Saint Valentine love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards known as "valentines". Valentine's Day symbols that are used today include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and Saint Valentine figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have given way to Saint Valentine greeting cards. Saint Valentine's Day is not a public holiday in any country, although it is an official feast day in the [11] and the Lutheran Saint Valentine. Numerous early Christian martyrs were named Valentine. Saint Valentine and Saint Valentine of Terni Valentinus ep. Interamnensis m. The relics of Saint Valentine were kept in the Church and Catacombs of San Valentino in Rome, which "remained an important pilgrim site throughout the Middle Ages until the relics of St. Valentine of Terni became bishop of Interamna now Saint Valentinein central and is said to have been martyred during the persecution under Emperor Aurelian in He is buried on the Via Flaminia, but in a different location from Valentine of Rome. Professor Jack B. Oruch of the University of Kansas notes that "abstracts Saint Valentine the acts of the two saints were in nearly every church and monastery of Europe. He was martyred in Africa with a number of companions, but nothing more is known Saint Valentine him. February 14 is celebrated as St. Valentine's Day in various Christian denominations ; it has, for example, the rank of '' in the in the Anglican Communion. The feast day is still celebrated in Balzan where relics of the saint are claimed to be found, and also throughout the world by Traditionalist Catholics who follow the older, pre- Second Vatican Council calendar see of In the Eastern Orthodox ChurchSt. Cooper, in The Dictionary of Christianitywrites that Saint Valentine was "a priest of Rome who was imprisoned for succouring persecuted Christians. The same events are also found in 's Martyrologywhich was compiled in the 8th century. Claudius was impressed by Valentine and had a discussion with him, attempting to get Saint Valentine to convert to Roman paganism in order to save his life. Valentine refused and tried to convert Claudius to Christianity instead. Because of this, he was executed. Saint Valentine his execution, he is reported to have performed a miracle by healing Julia, the blind daughter of his jailer Asterius. The jailer's daughter and his forty-six member household family members and servants came to believe in and were baptized. A later Passio repeated the legend, adding that Julius I built a church over his sepulchre it is a confusion with a 4th-century tribune called Valentino who donated land to build a church at a time when Julius was Saint Valentine Pope. There is an additional embellishment to The Golden Legendwhich according to Henry Ansgar Kelly, was added in the 18th century and widely repeated. This order says that according to legend, "Julia herself planted a pink-blossomed almond tree near his grave. Today, the almond tree remains a Saint Valentine of abiding love and friendship. Another embellishment suggests that Saint Valentine performed clandestine Christian weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to Saint Valentine. According to legend, in order "to remind these men of their vows and God's love, Saint Valentine is said to have cut hearts from parchment", giving them to these soldiers and persecuted Christiansa possible origin of the widespread use of hearts on St. Valentine's Day. Saint Valentine supposedly wore Saint Valentine purple amethyst ring, customarily worn on the hands of Christian bishops with an image of Cupid engraved in it, a recognizable symbol associated with love that was legal under the Saint Valentine Empire; [37] [40] Roman soldiers would recognize the ring and ask him to perform marriage for them. While the European folk traditions connected with Saint Valentine and St. Valentine's Day have become marginalized by the modern Anglo- American customs connecting the day with romantic lovethere are some remaining associations connecting the saint with Saint Valentine advent of spring. While the custom of sending cards, flowers, Saint Valentine and other gifts originated in the UK, Valentine's Day still remains connected with various regional customs in England. In Norfolka character called 'Jack' Valentine knocks on the rear door of houses leaving sweets and presents for children. Although he was leaving treats, many children were scared of this mystical person. In SloveniaSaint Valentine or Zdravko was one of the saints of spring, the saint of good health and the patron of beekeepers and pilgrims. Plants and flowers start to grow on this day. It has been celebrated as the day when the first work in the vineyards and in the fields commences. It is also said that birds propose to each other or marry on that day. Another proverb says "Valentin — prvi spomladin" "Valentine — the first spring saint"as in some places especially White CarniolaSaint Valentine marks the beginning of spring. The patron of love was Saint Valentine Anthonywhose day has been celebrated on June No evidence has been demonstrated to link St. Valentine's Day and the rites of the ancient Roman purification festival of Lupercaliadespite persistent and sometimes detailed claims by many authors to the contrary, nor to any otherwise unspecified Greco-Roman holiday supposed to have celebrated love or fertility. In Ancient RomeLupercalia was observed February 13— It was a rite connected to purification and health, and Saint Valentine only slight connection to fertility as a part of health and none to love. Lupercalia was a festival local to the city of Rome. The more general Festival of Juno Februameaning "Juno the purifier" or "the chaste Juno", was celebrated on February 13— — abolished Lupercalia. Some researchers have theorized that Gelasius I replaced Lupercalia with the celebration of the Purification of the Blessed Mary and claim a connection to the 14th century's connotations of romantic love, but there is no historical indication that he ever intended such a thing. Alban Butler in his Lifes of the Principal Saints — claimed without proof that men and women in Lupercalia drew names from a jar to make couples, and that modern Valentine's letters originated from this custom. In reality, this practice originated in the Middle Ages, with no link to Lupercalia, with men drawing the names of girls at random to couple with them. This custom was combated by , for example by Frances de Sales aroundapparently by replacing it with a religious custom of girls drawing the names of apostles from the Saint Valentine. However, this religious custom is recorded as soon as the 13th century Saint Valentine the life of Saint Valentine Elizabeth of Hungaryso it could have a different origin. The first recorded association of Valentine's Saint Valentine with romantic love is believed to be in the Parliament of Fowls by Geoffrey Chaucera dream vision portraying a parliament Saint Valentine birds to choose their mates. Readers have Saint Valentine assumed that Chaucer was referring to February 14 as Valentine's Day. Henry Ansgar Kelly has observed that Chaucer might have had in mind the feast day of St. Valentine of Genoa, an early bishop of Genoa who died around AD ; it was probably celebrated on 3 May. Jack B. Oruch notes that the date on which spring begins has changed since Chaucer's time because of the precession of the equinoxes and the introduction of the more accurate Gregorian calendar only in On the Julian calendar in use in Chaucer's time, February 14 would have fallen on the date now Saint Valentine February 23, a time when some birds have started mating and nesting in England. Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls refers to a supposedly established tradition, but there is no record of such a tradition before Chaucer. The speculative derivation of sentimental Saint Valentine from the distant past began with 18th-century antiquariesnotably Alban Butlerthe author of Butler's Lives of Saintsand have been perpetuated even by respectable modern scholars. Most notably, "the idea that Valentine's Day customs perpetuated those of the Roman Saint Valentine has been accepted uncritically and repeated, in various forms, up to Saint Valentine present". Three other authors who made poems about birds mating on St. Chaucer most probably predated all of them; but due to the difficulty of dating medieval works, it is not possible to ascertain which of the four may have influenced the others. The earliest Saint Valentine of February 14 as Saint Valentine annual celebration of love appears in the Charter of the Court of Love. The charter, allegedly issued by Charles VI of France at Mantes-la-Jolie indescribes lavish festivities to be attended by several Saint Valentine of the royal court, including a feast, amorous song and poetry competitions, jousting and dancing. At the time, the duke was being held in the Tower Saint Valentine London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt The earliest surviving valentines in English appear to be those in the Paston Letterswritten in by Margery Brewes to her future husband John Paston "my right Saint Valentine Valentine". Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes, And dupp'd the chamber-door; Let in the maid, that out a maid Never departed more. John Donne used the legend Saint Valentine the marriage of the birds as the starting point for his epithalamion celebrating the marriage of Elizabethdaughter of James I of Englandand Frederick V, Elector Palatineon Valentine's Day:. All the Ayre is thy Diocese And all the chirping Queristers And other birds ar Saint Valentine parishioners Thou marryest every yeare The Lyrick Lark, and the graue whispering Doue, The Sparrow that neglects his life for loue, The houshold bird with the redd stomacher Thou makst the Blackbird speede as soone, As doth the Goldfinch, or the Halcyon The Husband Cock lookes out and soone is spedd And meets his wife, which brings her feather-bed. This day more cheerfully than ever shine. The verse " Roses are red " echoes conventions Saint Valentine as far back as Edmund Spenser 's epic The Faerie Queene :. The honey's sweet, and so are you. And Fortune said it shou'd be you. Ina British publisher issued The Young Man's Valentine Writerwhich contained scores of suggested sentimental verses for the young lover Saint Valentine to compose his own. Printers had already begun producing Saint Valentine limited number of cards with verses and sketches, called "mechanical valentines. Fancy Valentines were made with real lace and ribbons, with paper lace introduced in the midth century. A reduction in postal rates following Sir Rowland Hill 's postal reforms with the invention of the postage stamp Penny Black saw the number of Valentines posted increase, withsent just one year after its invention, and ushered in the less personal Saint Valentine easier practice of mailing Valentines. In the United States, the first mass-produced Valentines of embossed paper lace were produced and sold shortly after by Esther Howland — of Worcester, Massachusetts. Harrison's Confessions : "I burst in with my explanations: 'The valentine I know nothing about. Since the 19th century, handwritten notes have given Saint Valentine to Saint Valentine greeting cards. Inthe British chocolate company Cadbury created Fancy Boxes — a decorated box of chocolates — in the shape of a heart for Valentine's Day. The U. Greeting Card Association estimates that approximately million valentines are sent each year in the US. Half of those valentines are given to family members other than husband or wife, usually to children. The rise of Internet popularity at the turn of the millennium is creating new traditions. Millions of people use, every year, digital means of creating and sending Valentine's Day greeting messages such as e-cardslove coupons or printable greeting cards. An estimated 15 million e-valentines were sent in In Saint Valentine modern era, liturgically, the Anglican Church has a service for St. Valentine's Day the Feast of St. Valentinewhich includes the optional rite of the Saint Valentine of marriage vows. In the later 20th and early 21st centuries, these customs spread to other countries, like those of Hallowe'enor than aspects of Christmassuch as Santa Claus. Saint Valentine biography | birthday, trivia | Holiday Figure | Who2

Click Here for St. Valentine Prayer's. Saint Valentine, officially known as Saint Valentine of Saint Valentine, is a third-century Roman saint widely celebrated on February 14 and commonly associated with ". Although not much of St. Valentine's life is reliably known, and whether or not the stories involve two different saints by the same name is also not officially decided, it is highly agreed that St. Valentine was martyred and then buried on the Via Flaminia to the north of Rome. Inthe Roman removed St. Valentine from the General Roman Calendar, because so little is known about him. However, the church still recognizes him Saint Valentine a saint, listing him in the February 14 spot of Roman Martyrolgy. The legends attributed to the mysterious saint are Saint Valentine inconsistent as the actual identification of the man. One common story about St. Valentine is that in one point of his life, as the former Bishop of Terni, Narnia and Amelia, he was on house arrest with Judge Asterius. While discussing religion and faith with the Judge, Valentine pledged the validity of Jesus. The judge immediately put Valentine and his faith to the test. Take our 30 sec Valentine's Survey! Valentine was presented with the judge's blind daughter and told to restore her sight. If he succeeded, the judge vowed to do anything for Valentine. Placing his hands onto her eyes, Valentine restored the child's vision. Judge Asterius was humbled and obeyed Valentine's requests. Asterius broke all the idols around his house, fasted for three days Saint Valentine became baptized, along with his family and entire 44 member household. The Saint Valentine faithful judge then freed all Saint Valentine his Christian inmates. Valentine was later arrested again for continuing to try to convert people to Christianity. According Saint Valentine the popular hagiographical identity, and what is believed to be the first representation of St. Valentine, the , St. Valentine was a Roman priest martyred during Claudius' reign. The story tells that St. Valentine was imprisoned Saint Valentine marrying Christian couples and aiding Christians Saint Valentine persecuted by Claudius in Rome. Both acts were considered serious crimes. A relationship between the saint and emperor began to grow, until Valentine attempted to convince Claudius of Christianity. Claudius became raged and sentenced Valentine to death, commanding him to renounce his faith or be beaten with clubs and beheaded. Valentine refused to renounce his faith and Christianity and was executed outside the Flaminian Gate on February 14, Saint Valentine, other tales of St. Valentine's life claim he was executed either in the year, or Other depictions of St. Valentine's arrests tell that he secretly married couples so husbands wouldn't have to go to Saint Valentine. Another variation of the legend of St. Valentine says he refused to Saint Valentine to pagan gods, was imprisoned and while imprisoned he healed the jailer's blind daughter. On the day of his execution, he left the girl a note signed, "Your Valentine. is said to have built a church near Ponte Mole in his memory, which for a long time gave name to the gate now called Porta del Popolo, formerly, Porta Valetini. The romantic nature of Valentine's Day may have derived during the Middle Ages, when it was believed that birds paired couples in mid-February. According to English 18th-century antiquarians Alban Butler and Francis Douce, Valentine's Day was most likely Saint Valentine to overpower the pagan holiday, Lupercalia. Although the exact origin of the holiday is not widely agreed upon, it is widely Saint Valentine as a day for love, devotion and romance. Whoever he was, Valentine did really exist, because archaeologists have unearthed a Roman catacomb and an ancient church dedicated to St. Relics of St. Valentine can be found Saint Valentine over the world. A flower-crowned skull of St. Inother relics were exhumed from the catacombs of Saint Hippolytus on the Via Tiburtina and were identified as Valentine's. These were transported for a special Mass dedicated to those young and in love. Valentine's blood. Valentine is the Patron Saint of affianced couples, bee keepers, engaged Saint Valentine, epilepsy, fainting, greetings, happy , love, lovers, plague, travellers, and young people. 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