Britain's Roman Catholic Church is advising lovelorn singles to direct their 14 February requests for love to St Raphael, rather than St Valentine…Clare Ward, spokeswoman for the Catholic Enquiry Office, the official body providing information on Catholic life, said that while the distinction between the saints has always been clear within the Church it has, over the years, been blurred outside.
"Saint Valentine passed a note to his jailer's daughter, whose sight he is thought to have cured," she said.
"The note had no romantic content, but it's from this story that the tradition of sending notes of appreciation has come from"…
-BBC
If you must be gullible and foolish, at least don’t waste it on the wrong saint. But…
Where the church misses the whole point; the only real praying on Valentines Day is by guys anticipating a drubbing for giving the demanded gift by today’s women, who will find something wrong with it, and him, anyway.
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