Casket of St Valentine
A votive candle was lit in remembrance of all Lumiere Charity and Good Shepherd Church readers in the Church in which the casket of St Valentine rests.
The church is a dignified and calm haven in which the devout can pray. Many have flocked in past years to pray at St Valentine's altar.
Beneath the altar lies the burial casket of holy St Valentine. In 1835 the casket was given to Father Spratt by Pope Gregory XVI. The steel casket was brought to Whitefriars' Street Church on 10th November 1936 with great solemnity and celebration, which culminated in solemn High Mass at which Archbishop Murray of Dublin presided.
The statue cast by Irene Broe shows St Valentine as youthful and bare-footed. The martyred Saint is holding a crocus-plant, generally regarded as one of the symbols of spring.
The custom of sending 'Valentines' or love cards, especially among young people originate, in all probability, from the belief that the 14th February - the Saint's feast day - marks the beginning of Spring.
SAINT VALENTINE - PRAY FOR US
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