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title: VALENTINE MARTYR

subject date: 2017-01-10

caption: San VALENTINO (approximately 176 - Rome, 14 Feb. 273) Bishop of Terni and Martyr. According to tradition, he died by beheading under Aurelian, at 97 years, after torture. He was imprisoned for having joined in marriage the young Christian Serapio and Roman legionary Sabino, pagan, who had urgently requested baptism in order to join the love, seriously ill; the two were successively exhausted together immediately after the celebration. For this episode, the saint is venerated as the patron saint of lovers, but so is epileptic. It is commemorated on February 14th, the day of death (Dies Natalis, birth into heaven), which sometimes is referred to in the year 269 instead of 273; according to some sources, finally, it would actually two distinct historical characters, a bishop of Terni, and the other Roman presbyter (that would miraculously healed from blindness through prayer, as a prisoner, the daughter of a jailer, whose he was in love), both executed by decapitation on the via Flaminia to four years away from each other. colored engraving, Italy 1886

category: HIS

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country: Italia

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object name: 71402

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continent: Europa

image century : XIX

image epoch: Ottocento

licence: RM

subject century: III

subject epoch: Paleocristiano

technique: Incisione colorata

id: 39757

file name: FSNgilardi_71402.jpg

keywords

Early ChristiancellprisonprisonersinmatecommunityEucharistEucharistmystical visionValentine of TerniValentine of InteramnareligionCatholicismChristianitycult of saintsprisonmartyrValentine