When I was a
little girl, one question always boggled my mind whenever Valentine’s Day
approached; ‘Who is this Valentine?’ I never got the answer until I went to a
missionary school for my higher education and ran into a gorgeous book titled ‘The
book of Saints’ in our Vice Principal’s office. I felt like a fat kid in a
candy shop. My little mind and fingers scoured the pages and found him. (I
searched for my patron saint first though. Lots of St. Frances) There’s more
than a Saint Valentine. The church doesn’t really have much info on them but
they all died (martyred) on February 14.
There were
three of them; One was a missionary in Africa, the second a bishop in now,
Terni, Italy and the last a priest in Rome.
The second and the third are