tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post6451148621226569597..comments2023-12-16T16:17:43.886+00:00Comments on Fr Ray Blake's Blog: Valentine: habeas corpusFr Ray Blakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-21654211294913600082009-02-16T19:07:00.000+00:002009-02-16T19:07:00.000+00:00Yes's there may well have been more than one sain...Yes's there may well have been more than one saint with the name Valentine. The one that Newman brought back certainly had the name Valentine inscribed below it. I dont know about the others but Fr. Coyle's Valentine is probably different.Michael Cliftonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00568515640292864739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-53644708037472437902009-02-16T15:05:00.000+00:002009-02-16T15:05:00.000+00:00At the core of the stories about St Valentine - an...At the core of the stories about St Valentine - and there probably was only one whose relics may be in different places - is that he was a priest who was martyred for officiating at weddings when Emperor Claudius II forbade them. I think that the Church might do no harm if it placed St Valentine once again on the universal liturgical calendar. We need to emphasise the sacrament of matrimony. I cannot think of a beter witness to this and to genuine love - laying down his life for married couples - than St Valentine. http://bangortobobbio.blogspot.com/2009/02/saint-valentines-day.htmlFr Seán Coylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05432610859468495578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-43727828127290686262009-02-16T10:53:00.000+00:002009-02-16T10:53:00.000+00:00I was of the understanding that the St. Valentine ...I was of the understanding that the St. Valentine who became associated with romance in the medieval period was the martyr whose relics now reside in Whitefriar Carmelite Church in Dublin and that the Birmingham Oratory's St. Valentine was a different martyr altogether.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com