Saint Valentine's Legend – Based on Vintage Holy Card – Catholic Valentine Gift Choose Paper Size (Image is Smaller):5x7 Brown Desk Frame It illustrates Mary receiving grace

It illustrates Mary receiving grace from Jesus and pouring it upon us

Although there is Mary's sudden ache at the pain her child will endure someday

Believe it or not

and her cousins Francisco

Below is the blue bachelor button

Saint Valentine's Legend – Based on Vintage Holy Card – Catholic Valentine Gift Choose Paper Size (Image is Smaller):5x7 Brown Desk Frame It illustrates Mary receiving graceSaint Valentine lived in a very permissive, pagan society. Not only was it hostile to Christians, it was hostile to marriage. The Roman Emperor Claudius II had declared marriage illegal for his soldiers, as the Emperor Augustus had done previously. Some even say that he declared it illegal for all. In any event, Valentinus, a Roman doctor and Catholic priest, upheld the Christian tradition that marriage is a sacred bond between one man and one woman,