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Prompt 30 - St Valentine
Prompt 30

St. Valentine was a Priest, martyred in 269 at Rome and was buried on the Flaminian Way. He is the Patron Saint of affianced couples, bee keepers, engaged couples, epilepsy, fainting, greetings, happy marriages, love, lovers, plague, travellers, young people. He is represented in pictures with birds and roses.

Does learning this change your thoughts about Valentine's Day?

What that St Valentine was a priest? What do priests know about love? But Valentine's day....it's nothing to do with bees or the plague. And why do you need a patron saint for the plague? Is there a Patron Saint for measles? I guess love is like a disease, I mean it sends people crazy but I don't think that's anything to do with which Saint it's named after.

I guess I don;'t treat St Valentine's day like a Saints day. I mean we don't go to church or pray. It;s not even a holiday, we don't get the day off work. It's just another day where people give each other cards and flowers, that's it. It doesn't really have anything to do with a saint's day does it?

So, no, you could tell me facts about St Valentine's day and St Valentine all day. In fact Benny probably would, but it wouldn't change the day for me. The only thing that changed it? Was Fraser.