St. Valentine

For a short period, Emperor Claudius II outlawed marriage to keep men available as soldiers for the Roman army. However, St. Valentine refused to accept this ...

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St. Valentine's grave is located at the Whitefriar Street Church in Dublin. Ever since it was erected, love-seekers have turned up at his gravesite every year ...

It was in 1950 that a statue and shrine were built at the church to honour St. Valentine’s grave is located at the Whitefriar Street Church in Dublin. It is believed that the St. John Spratt, convinced Pope Gregory XVI to dig up his grave in 1835 and take St Valentine’s remains home as a present to the folks of Ireland. Valentine himself was executed in Rome, his current and final resting place is in the Irish capital. St Patrick’s Day, Halloween, and many of the most famous holidays have links to the Emerald Isle.

Pic of Day: St. Valentine is an Italian saint. But he rests in Dublin. Some of him at any rate. St. Valentine died in 269 AD. The Catholic Church v...

The decorated lead casket containing the relics, and which measures about eighteen inches by twelve inches, is kept in a glass case below a statue of the saint at a side altar in the church. The Catholic Church venerates him as the patron saint of couples in love, planning to be married, and of married life. Those remains have been in the possession of the Carmelite White Friar fathers ever since and rest in the order’s church, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, in Whitefriar Street.

Blessed John Duns Scotus Catholic church in the Gorbals is thought to be home to the forearm of St Valentine.

Glasgow is one of several European cities claiming to host some remains of St Valentine. The bones were then moved to a church in Ballater Street and then to Blessed John Duns Scotus, where they remain today. The forearm of St Valentine is claimed to be kept in a chest at the Blessed John Duns Scotus Catholic church in the Gorbals.

The origins of Valentine's Day trace back to the legendary Christian martyr St. Valentine, who served as an inspiration for over two thousand years.

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). As time passed, the [Feast of Saint Valentine](/topic/feast-of-saint-valentine)transformed into a day for celebrating love, eventually evolving into the modern-day Valentine's Day. [Pope](/topic/pope)Julius I of the [Catholic Church](/topic/catholic-church)ordered the construction of a basilica at the Via Flaminia, an ancient roadway connecting Rome and Rimini, over St. [Roman Catholic Church](/topic/roman-catholic-church)acknowledges St. According to a passed-down legend, St. Valentine lived during the period spanning the late 2nd and early 3rd century AD.

Bishop Nulty blessed engaged couples Orla Gavin and Patrick Corcoran, and Ilona Catharine Dorrepaal and Patrick Michael Lennon. In welcoming the couples to the ...