Valentines Quiz

Study Notes

Saint Valentine is celebrated on February 14 because it is the day of his martyrdom.
Saint Valentine was a priest who was martyred in 269.
His relics are kept in the Catacombs of San Valentino in Rome.
Valentine of Terni became bishop of Interamna and is said to have been martyred during the persecution under Emperor Aurelian.
His relics are at the Basilica of Saint Valentine in Terni.
Saint Valentine was a priest of Rome who was imprisoned for succouring persecuted Christians.
Contemporary records of Saint Valentine were most probably destroyed during this Diocletianic Persecution in the early 4th century.
In the 5th or 6th century, a work called Passio Marii et Marthae published a story of martyrdom for Saint Valentine of Rome, perhaps by borrowing tortures that happened to other saints, as was usual in the literature of that period.
The legend was picked up as fact by later martyrologies, starting with Bede's martyrology in the 8th century.
According to Henry Ansgar Kelly, the 18th century addition that added that on the evening before Valentine was to be executed, he is supposed to have written the first "valentine" card himself, addressed to the daughter of his jailer Asterius, was added in the 18th century and widely repeated.
The feast of Saint Valentine is celebrated on February 14th in honor of one of the Christian martyrs named Valentine.
The feast originated in Christendom and is celebrated by the Western Church of Christendom.
The purpose of the feast is to honor one of the Christian martyrs.
The feast is celebrated in honor of Pan & Juno, pagan gods of love, marriage, and fertility.
The feast is celebrated in Ancient Rome on the days of Lupercalia.
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the Parliament of Fowls in 1382.
The Parliament of Fowls celebrates the first anniversary of the engagement of King Richard II of England to fifteen-year-old Anne of Bohemia.
In the Parliament of Fowls, Chaucer writes that Valentine's Day is a day to honour St. Valentine of Genoa, an early bishop of Genoa who died around AD 307.
Chaucer's Valentine's Day might have been celebrated on 3 May on the Julian calendar in use at the time, but it is now celebrated on February 14 on the Gregorian calendar.
The key facts about Valentine's Day mentioned in the text above are that it is a day to honour St. Valentine of Genoa and that it falls on February 14 on the Gregorian calendar.