Newark Advocate faith columnist Jeff Gill explores the history of Valentine's Day and how it connects to today's ...

Father Michael said Saint Valentine was one, very real person– or at least the man that the church honored with a feast was no legend. He said he did not know of the secret marriage ceremonies, but ...

Besides the Holy Doors, other factors have contributed to the high number of people visiting Rome and other parts of Italy to ...

In the original festival, men would sacrifice a goat and a dog, then run around naked or nearly naked, hitting women with the animals' hides.

The basilica of Santa Maria di Cosmedin, famous for the Mouth of Truth, houses a skull attributed to Saint Valentine, adorned ...

Such was their influence in Church history, through their evangelization efforts, that Pope John Paul II named the two ...

Pope Gelasius I is said to have replaced the Roman fertility festival of Lupercalia with St. Valentine's Day in the fifth ...

When Alessandro Michele was growing up in Rome in the 1970s, one of his favorite pastimes was to rummage through his mother’s closet and to run his hands over the rustling taffeta, glinting sequins, ...

The health of Pope Francis, hospitalized since February 14 for pneumonia, is causing concern. Since his election in 2013, he ...

St. Irene of Rome was the widow of the martyr Saint Castulus, a Roman military officer who was killed for spreading the Christian faith in 286. She lived in the Roman Empire during the reign of ...

According to History.com, exchanging Valentine's took off in the 1700s, a period coinciding with Romanticism in literature ...