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Show VALENTINE'S DAY. : The Saint Valentine after whom Val- entlne's day is named was a Roman .' bishop, living about the Third century , of our era. He was made a saint, since l he died a martyr at the hands of a ' mob. The . old gate once called Fla- mlnian was afterward made a monu- ment to his memory, being called the J "Porta Valentlna," by Pope Julius I. ' Lydgate, the English poet, about the middle of the Fifteenth century, sent a . poem in true Valentine fashion to i Queen Katherlne, the French bride of j Henry V. Charles, Duke of Orleans, however, had sent a poetical valentine 'even earlier. Within two centuries af-' af-' terward it had become the fashion to send presents instead of verses,' but In the eighteenth century the fashion changed again, ami the sending of verses has been c-ustuniary ever since. St. Nicholas. |