St. Valentine's PNCC » Christian witness http://www.stvalentinespncc.org One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, and Democratic - 2330 Margaret St., Philadelphia, PA | 215-535-4978 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:37:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 All Souls Day Service http://www.stvalentinespncc.org/2009/10/29/all-souls-day-service/ http://www.stvalentinespncc.org/2009/10/29/all-souls-day-service/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:33:15 +0000 admin http://www.stvalentinespncc.org/?p=103 05

Special All Souls Day services will be held as follows:

  • In church on Sunday, November 1st at 8 and 9:30 AM.
  • At the Parish Cemetery in AndalusIa, 875 Mill Rd., Bensalem, PA on Sunday, November 1st at 2 PM.

All services will include a reading of the Rote of the Departed/Wypomniki.

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]]> http://www.stvalentinespncc.org/2009/10/29/all-souls-day-service/feed/ 0 St. Valentine http://www.stvalentinespncc.org/2009/04/09/st-valentine/ http://www.stvalentinespncc.org/2009/04/09/st-valentine/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:06:31 +0000 admin http://www.stvalentinespncc.org/?p=18 The various martyrologies include at least ten holy men named Valentine. Interestingly, each of them died as a martyr for love of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

saint_valentineThe Polish National Catholic Church commemorates the martyr Valentine who was killed in the persecution of Claudius II, the Goth, in 269. This martyr’s history appears in the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493 alongside the woodcut portrait of Valentine. The text indicates that he was a priest of the Roman diocese who was arrested and imprisoned when he was found to be ministering to Christians who were imprisoned. The text further indicates that he performed marriages for Christian couples facing death. The Emperor Claudius took a liking to Valentine until Valentine tried to convert the Emperor to Christianity.

Valentine was condemned to death. The Emperor ordered that he be beaten with clubs and stoned. Having failed to kill Valentine the Emperor ordered that he be beheaded. Valentine was beheaded outside the Flaminian Gate on February 14, 269.

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