medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
St Valentine
If you are interested at all in post-medieval developments in the cult of
St. Valentine, you might like to know that his relics are venerated in the
Carmelite Church on Whitefriar Street in Dublin:
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Mr. Johan Bergström-Allen
Carmelite
Projects & Publications Office, York
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
culture
Help!
The publicity person at
my institution has decreed that I will demonstrate the University’s
expertise by writing a short piece on St Valentine for the local press -
by tomorrow. I have
already discovered that there were several St Valentines and am about to have a
burrow through Phyllis’s previous
postings but would be
grateful for anything anyone
knows about any of these saints. I can do the late medieval
stuff and why it is
entirely an accident that St Valentine is associated with
love, but would be interested if
there is any evidence of
an early cultus, or indeed of a surviving cult that is separate from the
annual love
fest.
With thanks in advance,
and am happy to post a copy of whatever I come up with.
Dr Pat Cullum,
Head of History,
University of
Huddersfield,
Huddersfield.
HD1
3DH
Tel. (01484) 472315
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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