St Valentine's Shrine Dublin, Ireland

Happy Valentine's Day

In 1835 a priest from Dublin Fr Spratt visited Rome, and Pope Gregory XVI decided to make his Church a gift of some of St Valentine's bones, then believed to be in the Cemetery of St Hippolitus in Rome. The remains of Valentine were duly transferred to Whitefriar Street Church in 1836, and since that date have been venerated there, especially around the time of the Saint's Feast Day.