Saint Valentine Paperback – Picture Book, 1 Jan. 1999

This is a beautiful book that I enjoyed reading to my children. Had to go out to buy a crocus after! Just a note to parents of children who are sensitive that this is the story of the persecution and execution of St Valentine as well as the story of the blind girl who he cured, if you’re not ready for that this one needs skipping.

This is the perfect book to read your child. In it you read a story about Saint Valentine. It explains how he was a physician that lived in ancient Rome about two hundred years after Christ. That he was a very kind and giving man. He was a physician and a Christian priest at a time when they were persecuted.His faith and dedication is told as he treats his patients during the day and prays for them all night. The incident the author tells of Saint Valentine ministering to the small blind child is what is purported in this book to be the beginning of the giving of flowers on his feast day.This is a wonderfully told story.

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