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  2. Saint Valentine - Wikipedia

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    Saint Valentine of Rome was martyred on February 14 in AD 269. [39] The Feast of Saint Valentine, also known as Saint Valentine's Day, was established by Pope Gelasius I in AD 496 to be celebrated on February 14 in honour of the Christian martyr. [40] A shrine of Saint Valentine in Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland

  3. Portal:Catholic Church/Patron Archive/February - Wikipedia

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    Saint Valentine was a clergyman – either a priest or a bishop – in the Roman Empire who ministered to persecuted Christians. He was martyred and his body buried on the Via Flaminia on February 14, which has been observed as the Feast of Saint Valentine (Saint Valentine's Day) since at least the eighth century.

  4. Valentine's Day - Wikipedia

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    St Valentine baptizing St Lucilla, Jacopo Bassano. J.C. Cooper, in The Dictionary of Christianity, writes that Saint Valentine was "a priest of Rome who was imprisoned for succouring persecuted Christians." [30] Contemporary records of Saint Valentine were most probably destroyed during this Diocletianic Persecution in the early 4th century. [31]

  5. Valentinianism - Wikipedia

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    He went to Rome some time between AD 136 and 140, in the time of Pope Hyginus, and had risen to the peak of his teaching career between AD 150 and 155, during the time of Pius. [ 7 ] For some time in the mid-2nd century he was even a prominent and well-respected member of the proto-orthodox community in Rome.

  6. The surprisingly unromantic origins of Valentine’s Day - AOL

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    Valentine's Day hasn't always been flowers, chocolate and saccharine romance. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...

  7. February 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) - Wikipedia

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    St. Hilarion Calendar of Saints for the year of our Lord 2004. St. Hilarion Press (Austin, TX). p. 15. The Fourteenth Day of the Month of February. Orthodoxy in China. February 14. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome. The Roman Martyrology. Transl. by the Archbishop of Baltimore. Last Edition, According to the Copy Printed at Rome ...

  8. Prayer in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Thérèse of Lisieux describes prayer as "… a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy." [1] By prayer one acknowledges God's power and goodness, and one's own neediness and dependence.

  9. Valentinus (Gnostic) - Wikipedia

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    Valentinus (Greek: Οὐαλεντῖνος; c. 100 CE – c. 180) was the best known and, for a time, most successful early Christian Gnostic theologian. [1] He founded his school in Rome.