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Show ST. VALENTINE. (Mirror.) St. Valentine was a priest of Rome during the reign of Claudius II. His high reputation for wisdom and holiness holi-ness earned for him the esteem even of the pagans, while his zeal for religion and his charity towards the poor and suffering found a special field for their exercise In visiting the ChriF.Cians de. tained in prison. At length he himself i was arrested fcy the emperor's orders, and handod over for trial to the Judge j Asterius. The hitter, in answer to St. Valentine's astiertion that Jesus Christ ivas the true light that enlighteneth every man coming into the world, asked, in proof of this, the cure of his daughter, who was blind. At the prayer of St. Valentine God worked the. miracle, mir-acle, and Asterius. and his houserold were converted to the faith. After being twice scourged St. Valentine ob- J tained the crown of marytrdom by decapitation de-capitation Feb. 14. 270. |