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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]
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.
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]
Take a look back in time and see the events -- both big and small -- that happened on February 14th throughout the years.
Thomas Baker, 1867, English missionary killed and eaten, Fiji; Martyrs of the Paris Commune, 1871; Martyrs of Uganda, 1885–1887; Victor Emilio Moscoso Cárdenas, 1897; Amandina of Schakkebroek, 1900; Maria Goretti, 1902, died defending herself from being raped; Karolina Kózka, 1914; Armenian Martyrs, 1915-1923 [80] Grand Duchess Elizabeth ...
The stoning to death of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, in a painting by the 16th-century Spanish artist Juan Correa de Vivar. In Christianity, a martyr is a person who was killed for their testimony for Jesus or faith in Jesus. [1]
The history of Valentine’s Day and St. Valentine is a bit murky, but the holiday began as a liturgical feast day for a third-century Christian martyr, according to Lisa Bitel, a history and ...
Quiz your friends and family on these Valentine's Day facts on February 14. They'll make you rethink everything you know about the holiday of love!