GLASGOW has a connection to the story of Valentine’s Day.
In 1868, a French family made a donation to the Franciscan religious order. It was a wooden box labelled “the body of Saint Valentine” and this relic was sent to the church of Saint Francis in the Gorbals.
The chest largely languished in anonymity until it was moved to the nearby Blessed St John Duns Scotus in 1999, placed near the church’s entrance and decorated with flowers on 14th February each year. Glasgow was soon claiming the saint as one of its own, assuming the title “a City of Love”.