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Where in the World is Saint Valentine?
By Janet Brennan and Kelsea Brennan
FATE :: February 2006

As celebrated in the United States, Valentine’s Day is a simple, straight­forward holiday: Buy your sweetie some chocolates or flowers, mail a few cards to your loved ones, and you’re done.

But trying to uncover the origins of this ancient holiday is not so easy. And even more complicated is trying to locate the remains of the man for whom the day is named.

When I was a child attending Catholic school, we kids were taught that Saint Valentine was a priest jailed by the Romans during their persecution of Christians. From his cell he wrote letters to his many friends, signing them “from your Valentine.” These affectionate notes were the first “Valentine cards.”

While incarcerated he cured his jailer’s young daughter of blindness. Even this miracle, though, was not enough to keep him from being executed, on February 14.

Whether this story is fact or merely legend is impossible to know ...

Read the rest of this article in the February 2006 issue of FATE

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