Saint Valentine

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For a project, I need to know the dates Saint Valentine was canonized and beatified. Thanks so much.

-- Jennifer (jenuinelyqute@aol.com), October 31, 2003

Answers

Jennifer, This link should help you ( http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15254a.htm ) Good luck with you project! †AMDG

-- Jeff (jmajoris@optonline.net), October 31, 2003.

Jennifer, a lot of the earlier saints were not formally canonized/beatified, and I have a feeling that St. Valentine is one of them.

-- Christina (introibo2000@nospam.com), November 01, 2003.

Here is another good one http://www.catholic.org/saints/

-- Andrew m Tillcock (drewmeister7@earthlink.net), November 01, 2003.

In a manner of speaking, there has always been "canonization." In the earliest Christian centuries, there was approval by the local bishop of the popular (and local-only) veneration of a deceased holy person as a "saint." According to the Encyclopedia, the pope sometimes would then extend the veneration to the whole Church.

Now, though, when we speak of "canonization," we understand a lengthy, regimented process, involving first the local diocese and then later the Vatican, with the pope (not the bishop) making a final decision. Some historians trace the beginnings of the centralization to the late 11th century, caused by abuses on the local level. Others find the centralization beginning to operate a century earlier, claiming that the first papally canonized saint (who lived distant from Rome) may have been St. Ulrich in 993 (Pope John XV).

-- (Canon@Eyes.com), November 02, 2003.


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