The Carmelite church at Whitefriar Street in Dublin is an unlikely but popular pilgrimage site for couples, who can venerate ...

Records date back to 1720 for a small glassworks off London's Fleet Street, but Britain's longest running glass house, best known as the Whitefriars factory, really came into its own when James Powell ...

In addition to the building of Dublin’s Whitefriar St. church, Our Lady of Mount St. Carmel, in 1826, Spratt also founded St ...

Pictured is the Shrine of Saint Valentine in Whitefriar Street Church in Dublin. Saint Valentine, a priest in ancient Rome, ...

Whitefriar Street Church, a Carmelite Church in Dublin, has housed relics of St. Valentine since 1836, making the location a popular stop for Catholics to receive blessings around Valentine’s Day.

Historically speaking, there are multiple saints named Valentine or Valentinus - all of whom were martyred. The saint we're ...

Well, maybe not. The origin of this holiday for the expression of love really isn't romantic at all -- at least not in the traditional sense. Father Frank O'Gara of Whitefriars Street Church in Dublin ...

The shrine to St Valentine is still a major draw to the church and every year several thousand people come to pay homage on ...

Almost 70% of 25-34-year-olds have said the cost of owning a home is causing them to delay getting married and or having ...