saint valentine ← Previous revision Revision as of 18:17, 27 October 2009 Line 23: Line 23: ==saint valentine== ==saint valentine== - {{details|saint valentine}} + Numerous early Christian martyrs were named ((saint valentine|valentine)).<ref>Henry Ansgar Kelly, in ''Chaucer and the Cult of saint valentine'' (Leiden: Brill) 1986, accounts for these and further local saints valentine (Ch. 6 "The Genoese saint valentine and the observances of May") in arguring that Chaucer had an established tradition in mind, and (pp 79ff) linking the valentine in question to valentine, first bishop of Genoa, the only saint valentine honoured with a feast in springtime, the season indicated by Chaucer. valentine of Genoa was treated by ((Jacobus de Voragine|Jacobus of Verazze)) in his ''Chronicle of Genoa'' (Kelly p. 85).</ref> Until 1969, the Catholic Church formally recognized eleven valentine's Days. {{Fact|date=February 2009}} The valentines honored on February 14 are valentine of Rome (''Valentinus presb. m. Romae'') and valentine of Terni (''Valentinus ep. Interamnensis m. Romae'').<ref>''Oxford Dictionary of saints'', ''s.v.'' "valentine": "The ((Acta|Acts)) of both are unreliable, and the Bollandists assert that these two valentines were in fact one and the same."</ref> valentine of Rome<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintv06.htm|title=valentine of Rome}}</ref> was a priest in ((Rome)) who suffered martyrdom about AD 269 and was buried on the ((Via Flaminia)). His relics are at the Church of saint Praxed in Rome.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.novareinna.com/festive/saintval.html|title=saint valentine's Day: Legend of the saint}}</ref> and at ((Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church)) in Dublin, Ireland. Numerous early Christian martyrs were named ((saint valentine|valentine)).<ref>Henry Ansgar Kelly, in ''Chaucer and the Cult of saint valentine'' (Leiden: Brill) 1986, accounts for these and further local saints valentine (Ch. 6 "The Genoese saint valentine and the observances of May") in arguring that Chaucer had an established tradition in mind, and (pp 79ff) linking the valentine in question to valentine, first bishop of Genoa, the only saint valentine honoured with a feast in springtime, the season indicated by Chaucer. valentine of Genoa was treated by ((Jacobus de Voragine|Jacobus of Verazze)) in his ''Chronicle of Genoa'' (Kelly p. 85).</ref> Until 1969, the Catholic Church formally recognized eleven valentine's Days. {{Fact|date=February 2009}} The valentines honored on February 14 are valentine of Rome (''Valentinus presb. m. Romae'') and valentine of Terni (''Valentinus ep. Interamnensis m. Romae'').<ref>''Oxford Dictionary of saints'', ''s.v.'' "valentine": "The ((Acta|Acts)) of both are unreliable, and the Bollandists assert that these two valentines were in fact one and the same."</ref> valentine of Rome<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintv06.htm|title=valentine of Rome}}</ref> was a priest in ((Rome)) who suffered martyrdom about AD 269 and was buried on the ((Via Flaminia)). His relics are at the Church of saint Praxed in Rome.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.novareinna.com/festive/saintval.html|title=saint valentine's Day: Legend of the saint}}</ref> and at ((Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church)) in Dublin, Ireland.