Article: St Valentine lay in a cardboard box in Gorbals.(News)

IT was a rather shabby end for the patron saint of romance when his remains were stuck in an old cardboard box and left to gather dust on top of a wardrobe.

Hardly fitting for St Valentine, who has inspired great romance for hundreds of years.

The bones - well, some of them - of the famous Christian martyr lay untouched for six years inside a Scottish church.

Now the casket will be given a new home and put on display.

Bizarrely, even though he was an Italian who died in 270 AD, St Valentine's final resting place is ...

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