As couples across the world prepared for Valentine's Day in February 2025, a rumor cropped up on social media that St.

Lucien Botovasoa was born in 1908, the first of nine children in his family in rural part of Madagascar. He was baptized into the Catholic faith at age ten and received his First Holy Communion at age ...

So how did a saint with such a gruesome death come to be associated with a holiday all about love, chocolates, and chubby cherubs? According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, at least three different ...