St Valentine’s hometown strikes a balance between Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day
Terni, Italy RNS This Wednesday marked a peculiar challenge for practicing Catholics. Valentine’s Day, characterised by candlelit dinners and boxed chocolates, and Ash Wednesday, the start of Lenten privations, collided on 14th February this year, for an odd mashup of romance and abstinence. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has made it clear there will […]
St Valentine’s Italian birthplace seeks US suitors
Rome, ItalyThomson Reuters Foundation In an unusual call for love, the Italian birthplace of St Valentine said on Friday it was looking for a US suitor to become its “sister city”. The mayor of Terni in central Italy said he hoped to find a city in the United States committed to a “meaningful, longstanding bond” […]
ESSAY: THE ‘REAL’ ST VALENTINE WAS NO PATRON OF LOVE
In an article first published on The Conversation, LISA BITEL, professor of history and religion at the University of Southern California, explores the origins of St Valentine’s Day…