Saint Valentine's Legend – Based on Vintage Holy Card – Catholic Valentine Gift Catholic Gifts Also the spring flowers at

Also the spring flowers at their feet suggest hope and renewal

to help you be closer to the Saint

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The stories about her relics and her life are very interesting

Saint Valentine's Legend – Based on Vintage Holy Card – Catholic Valentine Gift Catholic Gifts Also the spring flowers atSaint Valentine lived in a very permissive, pagan society. Not only was it hostile to Christians, it was hostile to marriage. The Roman Emperor Claudius II had declared marriage illegal for his soldiers, as the Emperor Augustus had done previously. Some even say that he declared it illegal for all. In any event, Valentinus, a Roman doctor and Catholic priest, upheld the Christian tradition that marriage is a sacred bond between one man and one woman,