​"God is love." 1 Jn 4: 8

"As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love.  If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love...This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you."         Jn 15: 9-10, 12-14
So... we've all grown-up with St. Valentine's Day and cards given, but who was this St. Valentine that we all celebrate?  Why don't we hear about him anymore in the Church?

During Vatican II, the Church updated it's liturgical calendar listing St. Cyril and Methodius' Feast Day on Feb. 14th.  Pope St. John Paul II declared them co-patrons of Europe in his encyclical EGREGIAE VIRTUTIS.