Carla Valentine

Carla Valentine Instagram – 💀🫀 Happy Valentine’s Day! For the special day, here is the skull of St Valentine. The day we all know and ‘love’ as a day for romantic celebration is called St Valentine’s Day yet there may have been more than one version of Valentine or Valentinus. However the two main stories, concerning Valentine of Terni and Valentine of Rome, could also refer to the same person. Scholars are still undecided.
What is known is that around AD 200 Valentine, Bishop of Terni, was imprisoned, tortured, beaten with clubs (aha! Not spades, diamonds or hearts…🥁 Sorry…) and beheaded in Rome for his Christianity by the Emperor Claudius. His skull, pictured, is in the Basilica of Saint Mary in Cosmedin, Rome, and is a rather more gruesome reminder of the martyred Saint than a fluffy teddy bear holding a heart. Further relics include “a vessel tinged with his blood” at Whitefriar Street Church in Dublin; parts housed at The Birmingham Oratory and his forearm in Blessed John Duns Scotus’ Church, Glasgow, in a wooden chest inscribed “Corpus Valentini Martyris.” It wasn’t until circa AD 500 that Pope Gelasius declared 14th February St Valentine’s Day, a Christian feast day. It’s been theorised that the date wasn’t arbitrary: it was placed during the already established Roman/Pagan Feast of Lupercalia, a fertility festival held over 13th to 15th Feb, during which men violently thrashed naked women with goat-skin whips to “improve fertility” which is pretty much a typical Valentine’s Day for me 😉💀🫀
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#anatomicalheart | Posted on 15/Feb/2024 01:17:17