Sean: Factbook entry issue

MJ. Smith

I have been aligning the saints in the LCMS calendar to Logos Factbook. For Valentine (Feb 14) my entry is linked to this as a key article:

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St. Valentine

At least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under date of 14 February. One is described as a priest at Rome, another as bishop of Interamna (modern Terni), and these two seem both to have suffered in the second half of the third century and to have been buried on the Flaminian Way, but at different distances from the city. In William of Malmesbury’s time what was known to the ancients as the Flaminian Gate of Rome and is now the Porta del Popolo, was called the Gate of St. Valentine. The name seems to have been taken from a small church dedicated to the saint which was in the immediate neighborhood. Of both these St. Valentines some sort of Acta are preserved but they are of relatively late date and of no historical value. Of the third Saint Valentine, who suffered in Africa with a number of companions, nothing further is known.

Herbert Thurston, “St. Valentine,” ed. Charles G. Herbermann et al., The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church (New York: The Encyclopedia Press; The Universal Knowledge Foundation, 1907–1913).

Which of the three is the Factbook supposed to point to? I don't want to link to the wrong Valentine.

MJ. Smith

weekly bump for attention 2

Carlos Balderas

Hi MJ. Smith,

I will add another article to this concept, this one is from The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church:

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Valentine, St. The commemoration formerly observed on 14 Feb. appears to refer to two Valentines: a Roman priest martyred on the Flaminian Way under the Emp. Claudius ( c. 269) and a Bp. of Terni (Interamna) who was taken to Rome and martyred, and whose remains were later conveyed back to Terni. Though the surviving accounts of both martyrdoms are clearly legendary, there are indications that each contains a nucleus of fact; and it is just possible that the kernel of truth in the two legends refers to a single person.

This concept will refer to the person(s) at the center of the commemoration on Feb 14th. There is no clear evidence to favor one over the other, so articles in this concept will probably cover several possible people for Saint Valentine.