Pic of day: Bishop Denis Nulty blesses engaged couple Lauren Stewart and David Higgins at the Shrine of Saint Valentine in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Whitefriar Street, Dublin, Friday. The ceremony took place beside the reliquary containing the saint’s relics. According to tradition, Saint Valentine was martyred on February 14, 250 AD. In 1836, relics that were exhumed from the catacombs of Saint Hippolytus on the Via Tiburtina, near Rome, were identified with Saint Valentine. These relics were placed in a casket, donated by Pope Gregory XVI, and transported to the Dublin church where they continue to be venerated to this day. Photo Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie.
