St. Valentine and the Politics of Christian and Muslim Martyrs

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. “The person who loves his life will lose it, while the person who is not afraid to die in this world will keep it for eternal life.” -Jesus “Martyrs write the history of nations because the history of nations can only be written with sweat and blood.” -Mujahedin Fighter There is no historical validity that St. Valentine, while in prison, fell in love with the blind daughter of a jailer and was stoned to death and then beheaded. What is known, though, is that St. Valentine was martyred sometime during the reign of Diocletian and Galerius,(1) two Roman and military emperors who signed edicts to eradicate Christianity. On this February 14, or…

See more here:

St. Valentine and the Politics of Christian and Muslim Martyrs

Posted by on February 14, 2011. Filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry