Valentine’s Day thoughts
On a day that is celebrated with declaration of love, flowers and chocolates, let’s take a minute to remember who was Saint Valentine! Put simply, he didn’t really have an easy life and he had a very painful death. He lived in the 3rd century and worked in the Roman Empire, administering to persecuted Christians, of which they were more than a few! He was martyred (to be precise, he was beaten, stoned, beheaded and buried on 14 Feb 269 AD) and his body buried on the Via Flaminia on 14th Feb, which has been observed as the Feast of Saint Valentine (Saint Valentine’s Day) since at least the eighth century.
