This Valentine’s Day ,say this prayer for your personal intentions 🙏 NOVENA TO SAINT VALENTINE

NOVENA TO SAINT VALENTINE

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen

O Glorious advocate and protector Saint Valentine,
Look with pity upon our wants, hear our requests.
Attend to our prayers, relieve by your intercession the miseries under which we labor,
And obtain for us the Divine blessing that we may be found worthy to join you in praising the Almighty for all eternity through the merits of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Pray, then, O Holy Martyr, for the Faithful, who are so persevering in celebrating thy memory. The day of Judgment will reveal to us all thy glorious merits.
Oh! intercede for us, that we may then be made thy companions at the right hand of the Great Judge, and be united with thee eternally in heaven.

LET US PRAY
Grant, we beseech thee, O Almighty God that we who solemnize the festival of Blessed Valentine, Thy Martyr, may by his intercession be delivered from all the evils that threaten us.
Through Christ our Lord. Amen. [Mention your intention(s) here...]

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Saint Valentine, advocate and protector, pray for me (us).
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St Valentine - Pray for us

Saint Valentine

         SAINT VALENTINE

St. Valentine, died 3rd century, Rome; feast day February 14, name of one or two legendary Christian martyrs whose lives seem to be historically based. Although the Roman Catholic Church continues to recognize St. Valentine as a saint of the church, he was removed from the General Roman Calendar in 1969 because of the lack of reliable information about him. He is the patron saint of lovers, epileptics, and beekeepers.

By some accounts, St. Valentine was a Roman priest and physician who suffered martyrdom during the persecution of Christians by the emperor Claudius II Gothicus about 270. He was buried on the Via Flaminia, and Pope Julius I reportedly built a basilica over his grave. Other narratives identify him as the bishop of Terni, Italy, who was martyred, apparently also in Rome, and whose relics were later taken to Terni. It is possible these are different versions of the same original account and refer to only one person.

According to legend, St. Valentine signed a letter “from your Valentine” to his jailer’s daughter, whom he had befriended and healed from blindness. Another common legend states that he defied the emperor’s orders and secretly married couples to spare the husbands from war.