Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-14 | Page 5 | The Good Saint Valentine

THE GOOD SAINT j ! VALENTINE e. By WILLIAM E BARTON When you nie In Rome, and Journey out on the Via Flamlnla. you will, find the cemetery of Saint Valentine. and you yvlll be told that the saint whose body Band name are there enshrined .vas an honored hon-ored bishop, who was faltnful to his trust ami I ihe Claudlan perse, per-se, .ill. ,ni You will be ma i iy rdom, and i h the month and day aro I YpU will hear wond- roup talcs about ihls gno old man VtiU will hear that he was a -.1 Into prison, and I wa. un terrified: what Is more, he yvas not emblU ered. 1 le healed the jail-. jail-. i - daughter f blindness, blind-ness, and this kind act, instead of soften-I n Ing the liarls of hie j A5AH.TON i . r tore, made them the more hateful. So they heat him and beheaded him. and supposed thot that was the end of the old bishop and lib religion. Th.-. weie mistaken. Valentine be-.ano be-.ano o popular character. But there were other noted men named Valentine, and one of them, a priest, rpct .both n the same day and month, though In a different y ear. Charles IjiuV. ihus speaks of him. the patron saint of (overs: "Thou contest attended i thousands anil ten thousands of little Loves; And the air Is brushed with the kiss of rustling wings. , Singing ' lipids are thy chorister and my preceptors. And Instead of creator Ihe mvstleal arrow ar-row Is borne before thee " SO much f. r Ihe good saint or saints e name Is given to us as belonging to the day. For centuries the dav has been celebrated with the giving of love-I love-I tokens Any day Is good for that pur-I pur-I pose, and' once n year Is none too ofien j for a dny that honors such a custom. ' i No matter If yon have been married a thdbxand years, or a period that seems as long you should freimenitv, sav. M lo. son." Say It In plain words. Sav J In a hundred dally acts And sav It oc-I oc-I casionally In unusual ways. For Instance. In a valentine.