Conway Mill Trust

Pope Gregory XVI made a gift of St Valentine’s remains to a Carmelite priest Fr Spratt who was building a church in Dublin in 1825.  The remains were brought to the church and received by the Archbishop.  After Fr Spratt died devotion to the saint waned and the relics sent to a back room to gather dust where they remained until about forty years ago when the church was renovated and the saint was given his rightful place in a shrine in the church.