Saint Valentine: The Man, the Saint, the Holiday - Episode 100

With this podcast, we celebrate Saint Valentine’s Day – the origin of which – as you will learn – is genuinely heart-rending. 

There remains some confusion among theologians as to which of two Catholic clerics named Valentinus* lent their name to Valentine’s Day.  But these days, many believe that those two clerics – a priest and a bishop – were likely the same person because of location and time. 

You see – the locations are the neighboring cities of Rome and Terni, and it’s possible that one cleric worked in both locations but at different times.  And what about the time?  All activities took place during the third century. 

Thus, for storytelling purposes, we assume there was one Valentinus, who achieved sainthood, whom we will now refer to as Saint Valentine. 

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