The Front Cover for this issue features St Valentine and St Patrick as both their Saints Days fall in Febuary/March. April Martin thought up the theme for the cover and Alan Morris arranged the graphics.

St Valentine
According to one legend, while imprisoned, the future Saint cured a girl (the jailer's daughter) of her blindness. The poor girl fell madly in love with Valentinus, but could not save him. On the eve of his execution, Valentinus managed to slip a parting message to the girl. The note, of course, was signed "From your Valentine".

For more information about St Valentine see:-
www.twilightbridge.com/hobbies/festivals/valentine
homepage.tinet.ie/~seanjmurphy/irhismys/valentine.htm
www.me2u.com/LoveLore/Valentine/valentine.tmpl
 

St Patrick
Myth tells extraordinary stories surrounding Patrick's life: captured at sixteen, he served as a slave in northern Ireland and later left to receive his religious training in Gaul. Having been anointed and sent to Ireland by the Pope, Patrick used the shamrock as a symbol of the Trinity, thereby saving Ireland from her heathen ways. Adorned with miter and staff in hand he drove the snakes from Ireland, ousted the High King at Tara, communed with God atop Crough Patrick and performed other wondrous feats.

For more information about St Patrick see:-
www.enya.org/stories/story07.htm
www.twilightbridge.com/hobbies/festivals/patrick

The above links to other sites are offered as examples of further interesting information.