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VALENTINE, or VALENTINUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 851 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VALENTINE, or See also:VALENTINUS , the name of a considerable number of See also:saints. The most celebrated are the two martyrs whose festivals fall on the 14th of See also:February—the one, a See also:Roman See also:priest, the other, See also:bishop of See also:Terni (Interamna). The See also:Passion of the former is See also:part of the See also:legend of SS. See also:Marius and Martha and their companions; that of the latter has no better See also:historical See also:foundation: so that no See also:argument can be See also:drawn from either See also:account to establish the differentiation of the two saints. It would appear from the two accounts that both belonged to the same See also:period, i.e. to the reign of the See also:emperor See also:Claudius (Gothicus); that both died on the same See also:day; and that both were buried on the Via See also:Flaminia, but at different distances from See also:Rome. The Marlyrologium Hieronymianum mentions only one Valentinus: " Interamnae miliario LXIIII. via Flaminia natale Valentini." It is probable that the See also:basilica situated at the second milestone on the Via Flaminia was also dedicated to him. It is impossible to See also:fix the date of his See also:death. The St Valentinus who is spoken of as the apostle of Rhaetia, and venerated in See also:Passau as its first bishop, flourished in the 5th See also:century. Although the name of St Valentine is very popular in See also:England, apparently no See also:church has been dedicated to him. For the See also:peculiar observances that used to be commonly connected with St Valentine's See also:Eve and Day, to which allusion is frequently made by See also:English writers, such See also:works as See also:John See also:Brand's Popular Antiquities (edited by W. C. See also:Hazlitt, vol. ii. pp.

6o6-r 1, See also:

London, 1905), W. See also:Hone's Every-Day See also:Book, and See also:Chambers's Book of Days may be consulted. Their appropriateness to the See also:spring See also:season is, in a See also:general way perhaps, obvious enough, but the association of the lovers' festival with St Valentine seems to be purely accidental.' See Acta Sanctorum, February, ii. 753, 756, and See also:January, i. I094; G. B. de See also:Rossi, Bullettino di archeologia cristiana (1871), p. See also:lot and (1878) p. 59. (H.

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