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Show Ct. Valentins. "The Catholic Mncyclopedin" tells un (hat nt least three different St. Valentines, Val-entines, all oT Ilieni martyrs, are mentioned men-tioned In the early imirtyrolngtes under un-der the date of Febi-uarv 1-1. One Is described ns a priest at Kome, another us I'lshop of Iiiteramnia (the modern Terni). and these .two seem both to have suffered In the second half of tin- Third century, and to have been burled on the I-'lanieninn Way. but at different distances trom the city of Kome. Of hntl- of these St. Valentines Valen-tines some sort of Acta are preserved, but lliey are of relatively late date and of no historical value, of the I bird St. Valentine, who suffered in Africa with a .number of companions, nothing further is known. |