Tiny Fudge Bites on the Feast Day of St. Valentine
Sweet Feast Day Treat for my Valentines St. Valentine's History He is the Patron Saint of: affianced couples bee keepers engaged couples epilepsy fainting greetings happy marriages love lovers plague travellers young people He is represented in pictures with birds and roses. The origin of St. Valentine, and how many St. Valentines there were, remains a mystery. One opinion is that he was a Roman martyred for refusing to give up his Christian faith. Other historians hold that St. Valentine was a temple priest jailed for defiance during the reign of Claudius. Whoever he was, Valentine really existed because archaeologists have unearthed a Roman catacomb and an ancient church dedicated to Saint Valentine. In 496 AD Pope Gelasius marked February 14th as a celebration in honor of his martyrdom. The first representation of Saint Valentine appeared in a The Nuremberg Chronicle, a great illustrat...