Saint Valentine of Rome

Stories Podcast: A Bedtime Show for Kids of All Ages

Stories Podcast / Wondery

Fiction, Kids & Family, Stories For Kids

4.2 • 12.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The strange but true tale of the origin of Valentine's Day. It all started way back in the third century with a Christian Bishop named Valentine and a Roman Emperor who wanted to outlaw love. Support the show at patreon.com/stories See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, Prime members!
0:01.8	You can listen to Stories Podcast, add free on Amazon Music.
0:05.9	Download the app today!
0:07.6	Hello!
0:08.6	Welcome to Stories Podcast.
0:10.5	I'm your host Amanda Weldon.
0:12.8	This week we're presenting St. Valentine's of Rome, the story of Valentine's Day, adapted
0:18.0	by Daniel Hines.
0:19.7	The story of Valentine's Day comes from Christian hageography.
0:23.5	A hageography is basically the story of the important deeds of a saint.
0:27.7	In this case, St. Valentine.
0:30.1	These stories are believed to be true by many sects of Christianity, but they were written
0:33.9	so long ago that many of the details vary depending on which version you read.
0:39.2	As with all of our stories based on world religions, we're presenting this as neither fact nor
0:43.9	fiction, but simply sharing the story that Valentine's Day is based on.
0:48.4	If you have a cool story from your culture that you'd like us to adapt and share, you
0:51.9	can always send an email to helloatstoriespodcast.com.
0:57.0	Today we'd like to say a special thank you to Agnes and Augustine and their family.
1:01.9	Maya and Talia and their family.
1:04.4	Lev Brian's and his family.
1:06.5	And Andrew and Jason Johnson and their family.
1:09.7	Thank you for helping to support our show, Jason, Andrew, Lev, Talia, Maya, Augustine,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Stories Podcast / Wondery, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Stories Podcast / Wondery and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.