With ecclesiastical splendor he was honored late yesterday afternoon in “Frangoklissia”, the Catholic Church of Mytilene, his memory Valentinerelics of which have been in Mytilene since the beginning of the 20th century.

Our Church today, speaking to the monument in the Church, was told by Archbishop Joseph, Apostolic Priest of the Diocese of Chios-Lesvos Samos, honors Saint Valentine’s Witness in the name of Christ. And society honors the saint of lovers.

The Catholic Church is full of people, by Greek Catholics and Europeans living on the island and immigrants from the camp of refugees and immigrants to Kara Tepe. But many Orthodox were there, thus honoring the history of the city. The night was musically accompanied by the Choir ANIMATO under the direction of Dimitris Hatzigiannakis.

At the same time on Ermou Street, on the shopping street of the city where “Frangoklissia” is located, the Mytilene Shopping Association celebrated the “love of lovers with music, treats, balloons and stands for photography.

Valentine’s relics, according to an earlier apocalyptic report by RES correspondent EIA in Mytilene Stratis Balaska, were in the Catholic Church of the City under the Holy Bank until 1990. In 1990 they were transferred to Athens by the then bishop of the Catholic Church of Mytilene, Franciscan Monk P. Torquato Morini. Some parts of these relics were placed in the chapel of the Capuchin Order, dedicated to Saints Francis and Clara, 7 Gilfu Street in Victoria Square in Athens, and others are said to be sent to the headquarters of the Catholic Church in Rome, where they were sent to Rome. Start their journey to the East two centuries ago!

According to Ayology, the probably Elder Valentine was arrested in Rome when Emperor was Claudius II, the so -called Gothus. After being tortured, he was executed by beheading on February 14, 268 on Flaminia Street. His companions collected his blood in a glass vial and buried his body with the glass vial in the catacombs of St. Priscilla.

In the year 1815, the relics of Valentine of Valentine was recovered by the catacombs. Some of them were donated to the priest noble John-Baptist Longarini di S. Costanzo from the Urbino Duchy. This priest was a chapel and hymn to the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Ispali in Seville, Spain.

For the second time after 1815 Valentine’s Relics are found in Mytilene in 1907. The community of Catholics was then a lifetime subordinate to the Catholic Bishop of Chios and in turn to the Catholic Archbishop of Smyrna.

How the relics arrived in Mytilene remains unknown. It is believed that with the death of the chapel and noble John-Baptist Longarini di S. Costanzo, the relics of Valentine’s Day were inherited to one of his relatives, who in turn bequeathed to his descendant who would probably About the late 19th century.

The fact, and even based on official documents, is that on April 26, 1907, the then Catholic Archbishop of Smyrna Dominic Maregos, during a pastoral visit to Mytilene, performed – perhaps at the request of his autopsy and autopsy and authentication. .

However, apart from this official Archbishopric Documentary of Authenticization, a handwritten note is preserved by the then Catholic Newspaper Mytilene P. Vitou-Viroutos, where, among other things, the date of “Mytilene 1.5.1907” is confirmed. The last holder of the Holy Relics was Lucia Theofanopoulou Bongigli, who donated them to the Catholic Temple of Mytilene. And the relics were forgotten until 1990 when they were transferred to Athens.

In 1994 and after the death of Fr. Torquatos, the relic was thoroughly “hidden” by Dimitrios Papadakis – Armykis.

The repair of the Catholic Church followed, and eventually in 2014, given the Renaissance of the Catholic Community in Lesvos, part of the relics returned to Mytilene where the Saint is solemnly honored.