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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. February 14 is Saint Valentine's Day in the Lutheran calendar of saints. [12]
Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, [1] is celebrated annually on February 14. [2] It originated as a Christian feast day honoring a martyr named Valentine , and through later folk traditions it has also become a significant cultural, religious and commercial celebration of romance and love in ...
Saint Valentine (Italian: San Valentino; Latin: Valentinus) was a 3rd-century Roman saint, commemorated in Western Christianity on February 14 and in Eastern Orthodoxy on July 6. From the High Middle Ages, his feast day has been associated with a tradition of courtly love. He is also a patron saint of Terni, epilepsy and beekeepers.
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Alfred Kellogg and Robert Cox, have claimed that the modern customs of Saint Valentine's Day originate from the Roman Lupercalia customs. [7] But J. Hillis Miller and others find the hypothesis unconvincing: they say there is no proof that the modern customs of Saint Valentine's Day can be traced to the Lupercalia, and the claim seems to ...
I note that the English and Italian versions of the Saint Valentine / San Valentino story are at odds on several points with each other, e.g.: 1) the English page talks about several "Valentines", whereas the Italian is focused on the bishop of Terni; 2) more historically notable, the English version affirms that Valentine was executed by order ...
Saint Patrick (3 C, 14 P) U. Uncle Sam (26 P) Pages in category "Holiday characters" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. ... Saint Valentine; W.
Saint Valentine; Valentin (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 24 August 2021, at 12:05 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...