Ash Wednesday

and Valentine’s Day

Here’s a window into another time and a way to think about our own, from The Lake Shore Visitor (Erie, Pennsylvania) 100 years ago.

Newspapers.com. Lake Shore Visitor, February 29, 1924. https://www.newspapers.com/article/lake-shore-visitor-lent-1924/140398393/.

And, yes, it’s also Valentine’s Day. Here is a link to read more about the history of the day, St. Valentin, Martyr of the Via Flaminia, and discover that while the Feast of St. Valentine was removed from the liturgical calendar in the late 1960s the Roman Martyrology lists not one, but two St. Valentines.

Window in Basilica of St.Valentin, Terni, Italy