Another popular legend claims St. Valentine was a bishop from Terni, Umbria (central Italy), who performed the same illegal Christian weddings and distributed paper hearts to symbolize their ...

Saint Valentine's feast could have been a replacement ... sexually charged festival at the Palatine Hill in Italy — where men would sacrifice a dog, and with its hide, would beat young women ...

This 19th-century engraving imagines what third-century Catholic martyr St. Valentine looked like ... near Rome in central Italy, who also was decapitated by Gothicus. It seems unlikely both ...

Saint Valentine is not thought to have had any intimate ... of Valentine overseeing the building of his basilica in Terni, Italy. This depicts him as a bishop in Terni, whereas the original ...

TERNI, Italy (RNS) — The hometown of the saint of love found a compromise between Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday. TERNI, Italy (RNS) — This Wednesday marked a peculiar challenge for ...

Valentine's Day will be here before you know it. The beginning of the holiday in the middle of February is shrouded in mystery, including who was Saint Valentine since Valentinus was a common name ...

As couples across the world prepared for Valentine's Day in February 2025, a rumor cropped up on social media that St. Valentine is not only the patron saint of lovers, but also of beekeepers ...