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#Valentinesday thread: A scattered saint.
In 496 AD, Pope Gelasius I made February 14 a feast day dedicated to St. Valentine. There are many places around the world which claim to have St. Valentine's relics.
1. the saint's skull at the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome
2. St Valentine's remains inside the San Valentino Basilica in Terni, Umbria
3. St. Valentine’s shoulder blade at the Church of Saints Paul and Peter in Prague, Czech Republic
4. A casket containing some of Saint Valentine's bones and a vessel with his blood in Dublin's Whitefriar Street Church
5. A silver reliquary in a church in Chełmno holds a bit of bone revered as from the skull of St. Valentine
6. A small wooden casket labeled 'Corpus Valentini Martyris,' (the Body of Saint Valentine) at Blessed St John Duns Scotus church in Glasgow
7. Relics of St Valentine at the Birmingham Oratory, England.
‘Corpus St. Valentin, M’ (Body of St. Valentine, Martyr)
8. A bit of bone believed to be from St Valentine's finger in in Coventry, England
Etc. 🙂

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