The famous Saint that has made Terni
the capital of the love
If Terni is famous in Italy and in
the world, part of its fame it certainly thanks to its saint patron, San
Valentino, '' protector of the lovers ''. St. Valentine become
during time the synonymous of love, feeling and tenderness, those that exchange
the persons in love of the whole planet during the day to him devoted, on February
14, his martyrdom.
St. Valentine was bishop of the city of
Terni, he lived in the III century and was persecuted by the Roman Senate. He
suffered the martyrdom and died in the year 273, the day 14th February. He
became protector of the persons in love since the tradition tells that he
celebrated a marriage among a pagan legionary and a young Christian. This
gesture makes him today messenger in the world of an important message of peace
and universal love, a powerful invitation that rests under the ash of a
festivity that can appear frivolous and an easy commercial expedient.
The bare of St. Valentine rest in the
Basilica that brings his name in the immediate proximity of the centre of
Terni.
Every year at Terni the recurrence of his
martyrdom is celebrated with events and demonstrations devoted to the life of
the saint and his message. In the Basilica numerous couples of young fiancés
prepare them to the marriage in the day of St. Valentine, pronounciating their
promise. Besides in the whole city literary meetings are held, lectures, short
films, shows, concerts, events among the most disparate in the artistic field
and of the show, tied by an only conductor: the love.
The Basilica of San Valentino of
Terni
The Basilica rises above the place in
which an ancient Christian cemetery has been identified. A first church was
built above the rests of the oratory in which the first followers of the saint
were gathered, destroyed in the I century. It was rebuilt in the XIII century,
but it is only during the 1600 that it will be completely restructured and
decorated, up to assume the aspect that still today maintains. Always in that
period, around 1630, the relics of San Valentino were deposed inside an urn and
situated under the altar.
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Brief history of the city of Terni
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The history of the first installations
appropriated in the territory constituted by the today's Terni, goes
back to ancient times, when a Umbrian-Sabinan people est...
