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 Saints' Day has been associated with a tradition of courtly love.He is also a patron saint of Terni, asthma and beekeepers. Saint Valentine was a clergyman – …

The relics of Saint Valentin de Terni, the patron of the St Valentine's Day, are in the Catholic church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Saint-Jean-l’Evangéliste located in the southern France town of Roquemaure, Gard. The celebrations of "Fête des Amoureux" takes place every two years on the Sunday closest to February 14.

St. Valentine, (died 3rd century, Rome; feast day February 14), name of one or two legendary Christian martyrs whose lives seem to be historically based. Although the Roman Catholic Church continues to recognize St. Valentine as a saint of the church, he was removed from the General Roman Calendar in 1969 because of the lack of reliable information about him. He is the …

As the patron saint of teenage girls and modern youth, St. Maria Goretti is an example of what it means to give oneself completely to Jesus, without fearing what the world may say or do. Born on October 16, 1890 to an Italian farming family and given the name Maria Teresa Goretti, St. Maria Goretti was the third of seven children.

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Valentin de Terni fêté le 14 février est désigné par l'Église catholique comme saint patron des amoureux en 1496, ... Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine, Leyde, Brill, 1986, p. 58-63. Jack B. Oruch, « St. Valentine, Chaucer, and Spring in February », …

St. Valentine is the Patron Saint of affianced couples, bee keepers, engaged couples, epilepsy, fainting, greetings, happy marriages, love, lovers, plague, travellers, and young people. He is represented in pictures with birds and roses and his feast day is celebrated on February 14.

Grace was born in Leridia, Catalonia, in modern Spain and was the daughter of Almanzor the Muslim caliph of the region. She was converted to Christianity by her brother, Saint Bernard (of Lerida) and she is the sister of Saint Maria (of Lerida) as well. Her father was converted to Christianity as well.

Cyril (born Constantine, 826–869) and Methodius (815–885) were two brothers and Byzantine Christian theologians and missionaries.For their work evangelizing the Slavs, they are known as the "Apostles to the Slavs".. They are credited with devising the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet used to transcribe Old Church Slavonic. After their deaths, their pupils continued their …