Columnist Katy Jean on the origins of Valentine's Day: 'Nothing says love like the 1,754th anniversary of a bishop martyred in Rome.'
The skull of the a person who possibly was Saint Valentine was put into a reliquary at the basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Italy.Nothing says love like the 1,754th anniversary of a bishop martyred in Rome.
He cured a child of blindness, converted her family to Christianity, continued to evangelize and was beheaded for it in the year 269. The third is much like the second but instead of the marriages being condemned, it was the act of helping Christians at all that led to him being beheaded around 269.The Pope named a few saints during his time as the vicar of Rome including, Saint George the dragon slayer. Proof didn’t seem to matter much to the Pope as he said of those he declared saints"... whose names are justly reverenced among men, but whose acts are known only to God.
When the superstitious Victorians got ahold of Valentine and heard of the relics, the love lore really took off. Saint George also lost his status along with Saint Christopher and Saint Nicholas, or Santa Claus, among 89 others declared more legends of the church with no validation of their actual existence.
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