Patron saints
Who Is the Patron Saint of Love And Engaged Couples?
Saint Valentine · Feast day February 14
The patron saint of love and engaged couples is Saint Valentine, whose feast day is February 14.
Who was Saint Valentine?
Saint Valentine was an early Roman priest and martyr. Among the stories told of him is that he secretly married Christian couples and encouraged those in prison, giving his life for his faith.
Why the patron of love and engaged couples?
From these accounts of love and marriage, and the date of his feast, he became the patron of engaged couples and of love, remembered every February 14.
In the Word
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,1 Corinthians 13:4 (KJV)
A note for all traditions: patron saints are honored in the Catholic and Orthodox churches as examples of faith and as friends who pray with us, never worshiped, for worship belongs to God alone. Many Protestant Christians honor the saints as examples without asking their intercession. Across all traditions, there is one Lord and one mediator between God and us, the man Christ Jesus, and every one of us, not only the saints, is called to holiness and to him.
All the saints point to Jesus, and so are you called
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