St. Valentine's Day?

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I was curious why the Catholic church took the feast of St.Valentine off of the liturgical calendar? When did this happen and what was the reason for it?
 
It happened in 1970 along with a number of other saints. The reason given officially was that there were more feasts than necessary, and all the saints on the Roman Calendar weren’t of universal importance. See Pope Paul VI, Mysterii paschalis, who cites Vatican II’s Sacrosanctum Concilium, no. 111. Another reason I’ve heard is that we know so little about some of the early saints and martyrs, and there may be concern about their cult being based on legend more than fact.

Communities that use the traditional Latin Mass still observe the older feasts with the Church’s approval, although since 1960 or so, Sunday always trumps saints’ feast days. So today, for example, the feast proper of St. Valentine was not observed in the extraordinary form of the Roman rite - although I believe he was still commemorated with a prayer or two said by the priest in Latin.
 
Because so little is known of him, in 1969 the Roman Catholic Church removed his name from the General Roman Calendar, leaving his liturgical celebration to local calendars.[3] The Roman Catholic Church continues to recognize him as a saint, listing him as such in the February 14 entry in the Roman Martyrology,[4] and authorizing liturgical veneration of him on February 14 in any place where that day is not devoted to some other obligatory celebration in accordance with the rule that on such a day the Mass may be that of any saint listed in the Martyrology for that day.[5] Use of the pre-1970 liturgical calendar is also authorized under the conditions indicated in the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum of 2007. Saint Valentine’s Church in Rome, built in 1960 for the needs of the Olympic Village, continues as a modern, well-visited parish church.
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Saint Valentine remains in the Roman Catholic Church’s official list of saints (the Roman Martyrology), but, in view of the scarcity of information about him, his commemoration was removed from the General Roman Calendar, when this was revised in 1969. It is included in local calendars of places such as Balzan in Malta. Some Traditionalist Catholics observe earlier calendars of the Roman Rite, in which Saint Valentine was celebrated as a Simple Feast until 1955, when Pope Pius XII reduced the mention of him to a commemoration in the Mass of the day, a position it kept in the General Roman Calendar of 1960 incorporated in the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal, use of which, as an extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, is still authorized in accordance with Pope Benedict XVI’s 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine

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Because saying “Happy Cyril and Methodious’s Day!” right before you give bae a box of chocolates sounds so much better 😃
 
Stephen_says said:
Because saying “Happy Cyril and Methodious’s Day!” right before you give bae a box of chocolates sounds so much better 😃
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I think Cyril and Methodius are way more significant than the relatively obscure St. Valentine.

Valentine’s day is one of my most hated holidays, and among the most emotionally stressful. I wish it would just go away.
 
porthos11 said:
I think Cyril and Methodius are way more significant than the relatively obscure St. Valentine.

Valentine’s day is one of my most hated holidays, and among the most emotionally stressful. I wish it would just go away.
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Agreed and agreed. Sorry to hear you think it’s emotionally stressful :/. I can understand how it negatively affects a lot of people.
 
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