PicturesOnGold.com Saint Valentine Heart Shaped Religious Medal - 2/3 Inch Size of Dime, Sterling Silver

CHAIN IS NOT INCLUDEDAvailable in Solid 14K Yellow Gold, White Gold, & Sterling SilverSize Reference:17mm is the size of a US dime21mm is the size of a US nickel24mm is the size of a US quarter Saint Valentine (in Latin, Valentinus) is the name of several martyred saints of ancient Rome. The name "Valentine", derived from valens (worthy), was popular in late antiquity. Of the Saint Valentine whose feast is on February 14, nothing is known except his name and that he was buried at the Via Flaminia north of Rome on February 14. It is even uncertain whether the feast of that day celebrates only one saint or more saints of the same name. For this reason this liturgical commemoration was not kept in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints for universal liturgical veneration as revised in 1969. But "Martyr Valentinus the Presbyter and those with him at Rome" remains in the list of saints proposed for veneration by all Catholics Professor Oruch has made the case] that the traditions associated with "Valentines Day", documented in Geoffrey Chaucers Parliament of Foules, and set in the fictional context of an old tradition, had no such tradition before Chaucer. He argues that the speculative explanation of sentimental customs, posing as historical fact, had their origins among eighteenth-century antiquaries, notably Alban Butler, the author of Butlers Lives of Saints, and have been perpetuated even by respectable modern scholars. In the French fourteenth-century manuscript illumination from a Vies des Saints[21] (illustration above), Saint Valentine, bishop of Terni, oversees the construction of his basilica at Terni; there is no suggestion here yet that the bishop was a patron of lovers.

• Available in Solid 10K &14K Yellow or White Gold, or Sterling Silver
• 17mm - size of a US dime, 19mm - size of a US nickel, 25mm - size of a US quarter
• Made in the USA
• All Medals are Solid 14k or .925 Sterling Silver
• Free Jewelry Gift Box. Chain NOT Included.