Saint Valentine Resume

Name – Saint Valentine of Terni.
Birth – 176 Terni,Italy
Famous – Was a holy priest in Rome (Former bishop of Terni, Amelia and Narnia a town of Umbria in central Italy.)
Death – February 14,273 A.D
Memorial Day – February 14 every year.

• Valentine was caught, imprisoned and tortured for performing marriage ceremonies against command of Emperor Claudius the second”.
• The last words that valentine wrote were in a note to Asterius daughter. He inspired today’s romantic missives by signing it “From your Valentine. 
• 269 AD – Valentine was sentenced to a three part execution of a beating, stoning, and finally decapitation all because of his stand for Christian marriage. 
• 1969 – Roman catholic church removed Saint Valentine’s name from the general Roman calendar leaving his liturgical celebrations to local calendars. 
• Valentine was eventually caught, imprisoned and tortured for performing marriage ceremonies against command of Emperor Claudius the second”

Saint Valentine quick facts

• The St. Valentine who inspired the holiday may have been two different men.
• Saint Valentine feast was first established by Pope Gelasius 1 in 496. 
• Pope Julius 1 is said to have built a church near Ponte Mole to his memory ( Porta del Popolo or Porta valentine) .
• There are about a dozen St. Valentines, plus a Pope .
• He was martyred and buried at the cemetery on the via Flaminia close to the Ponte Milvio, north of Rome. 
• It is uncertain whether saint Valentine is to be identified as one Saint or the conflation of the two Saints of the same name. 
• The flower-crowned skull of St Valentine is exhibited in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome. 
• Valentine is the patron saint of beekeepers and epilepsy, among many other things Saint Valentine remains are deposited in Madrid. The relics can be found in St Anton’s church where they have lied since late 17th century. Saint Valentine remaining is believed to be in Dublin.
•  In 1836 some relics that were exhumed from the catacombs of the saint Hippolytus on the via Tiburtuna, then near Rome, were identified with saint valentine placed in casket and transported to the procession to the high altar for the special mass dedicated to young people and all those in love.
• In 1936 an Irish famous priest John Spratt was given a gift from Pope Gregory XVI, the gifts were the remains of Saint Valentine and a small vessel tinged with his blood. 
• Another relic was found in 2003 in Prague, in church of St Peter and Paul at Vysehrad. 
• A silver reliquary containing a fragment of Saint Valentine’s skull is found in the Parish church of Saint Mary’s assumption in Chelmno, Poland. 
• Relics can also be found in the Greek island of Lesbos. 
• Some say that Valentine’s feast day is celebrated in February because the church wanted to Christianize an ancient Roman pagan festival called Lupercalia, which centered around fertility and purification, and also took place in February

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