A HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

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Jaya Sri Radhey! Namaste.

 

I wish you all

 

A HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

 

Not only today but also may all your days ahead be filled

with Divine love and Joyful Service to Beloved Lord.

 

 

Saint Valentine the Patron of Love

 

According to a legend, born in Anglo - Saxon countries, St Valentine

used to give the young girls and boys going and seeing him a flower

of his garden. Two of these young people fell in love with each other

and got married. St Valentine blessed their marriage and their union

was so happy and serene that many other couples wanted the Saint

Bishop to bless their marriage.

In order to satisfy the numerous demands, he fixed a day of the year

in which he gave all couples his general wedding blessing. For this

reason he began to be called protector of engaged people.

Moreover the popular tradition hands down the legend of SABINO and

SERAPIA. It enphasizes that love is much stronger than death, when it

binds two people in God's name.

Sabino, a pagan roman, centurion and a Christian girl, Serapia, fell

in love with each other, but their parents impeded their union

because of the persecution of the christians.

However they went in loving each other and Serapia's words and

behavious won Sabino who began to be interested inthe Christian

religion so that at last he asked to become a member of the Christian

community. St Valentine explained the mysteres of christian religion

to him, took care of them and prepared them for a christian marriage.

Everything was ready for the baptism and marriage, when Serapia got

phthisis. It was the end of a dream. Sabino didn't want to leave his

loved Serapia. So he asked the Saint Bishop to baptize him, marry

them and pray God to let them die together. And it happened.

 

source: http://www.travel.it/relig/saints/valent.htm

 

 

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Bishop, Martyr and Patron of Terni

 

Saint Valentine was born in Terni, a prefecture of Rome, about in 175

A.D., during Marcus Aurelius' Empire. In 197 A.D., during the

pontificate of Pope St victor I, he was consacrate bishop of Terni

and of the Christian communities of Nera Valley by St. Feliciano,

bishop in Foligno. He was a saintly life characterized by a fervent

pastoral zeal and extraordinary miracles, among which we have to

mention the immediate healing of a young student, Cheremone, the son

of a famous philosopher, Cratone. During Emperor Aurelianus'

persecution, the pious bishop was taken, imprisoned and flagellated

by order of a roman prefect, Placid Furius. At last he was behated on

the 14th of February in Rome, on the Via Flaminia, a road which

linked up the Empire's capital and Terni. The execution was carried

out during the night in order to avoid riots and acts of retaliation

of the people living in Terni, who loved and worshipped their bishop

and famous fellow - citizen very much.

After being exhumed from the cemetery in Via Flaminia, on the

initiative of his disciples Proculus, Efebus, Apollonius, St

Valentine was carried to Terni and buried out side the town walls.

 

 

from: http://www.travel.it/relig/saints/story.htm

 

Jaya Sri Radhey!