For many people Valentine's Day is the most romantic day of the year, a time to shower your loved one with gifts, love and appreciation.
It's also a time for perpetually unprepared partners to panic, and inadvertantly propose to their other half.
The history of St Valentine in Glasgow however, is more significant than simply romantic gestures and cringeworthy social media posts.
Believe it or not, a chapel in the Gorbals lays claim to the remains of St Valentine himself.
Blessed St John Duns Scotus Church in the Gorbals has a 3ft chest engrained with the inscription Corpus Valentini Martyris, contained within are some of the remains of St Valentine, the 3rd Century martyr.
In 1868 St Francis Church in the Gorbals, received a donation courtesy of a French family and Franciscan Monks, they were asked to take responsibility for the contents of a box. The box apparently containing the arm of St Valentine.
Storing the box away in a wooden chest inside the church, St Valentine's remains lay undiscovered for more than a century.
Fortuitously, in 1999 during the relocation of the St Francis Church to a new premises, St John Duns Scotus Church on Ballater Street, a box was discovered in a side isle, and within it contained the ancient remains of St Valentine.
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Although disputed by churches in Dublin and Rome, it hasn't stopped St John Duns Scotus Church becoming an unofficial proposal spot for lovebirds hoping to make their momentous day, even more memorable.
Every Valentine's Day the chest containing the ancient relic is adorned with flowers while the friars say prayers for lovers across the world.
If you're needing advice this Valentine's Day, why not seek inspiration from the remains of the man responsible for creating the very mythology of Valentine's Day itself.
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