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ST. VALERIA 288 AA,S8., from her Life by Simon Zami- obis, preserved in MS. in tbe monastery of St. Qnentin, at Parma. St. Uniria, June 1, M. with St. AUGEGA. AA^S, St. Usoria or Uroria, May 28, M. at Bome. AA.SS. St. Uvel, Eyilla. Miss Arnold- Forster. St. Uvilgeforte, Wilokfortis. St. Valburge, Walburga. St. Valdetrudis, Waltrude. St. Valdrada, Waldrada. St. Valentia (i), Valentina (3). St. Valentia (2), Sept 25, + 1728, a Carmelite nan in ^retagna Stadler. St. Valentina (l) or Eglantine, May 6, M. at Milan e, 280, with St. Victor and many other Christians. AA,SS, St Valentina (2), June 2, one of two hundred and twenty-seven Boman martyrs commemorated together in the Martyrology of St. Jerome. AA.SS. St. Valentina (3), with Marcns and Soterichns, Oct. 26. MM. in Asia Minor. When they had lived a long life and converted many, they were tortured by having long nails stuck into them. They were then dragged about the ground by men, women and children until they died. Men, Basil. AA.SS. St. Valentina (4), April 26, V. M. Her body was brought from Bome to Tpres and preserved in the church of the Carmelite nuns. Probably the same as one of the former Valentinas. St. Valentina (5), July 25, V. M. 308, at Gktza. She was a small, shabby, mean looking woman, a native either of Egypt or of CsBsarea in Palestine. She and her friend St. Thea were among some Christians assembled to hear the Holy Scriptures read. Thea was seized and tortured. Valentina cried out, " How long will you torment my sister ? " and she was at once seized and dragged to a heathen altar where fire and a sacri- fice stood ready. She threw it over with her foot. The two virgins were tied together and burnt alive. Eusebius tells the story without the name of Thea ; he merely calls her a Christian virgin, the companion of Valentina. R.M. AA.SS. Baillet. Butler. St. Valentiana or Aventiana, Jan. 12, M. Mart, of Donegal. Unknown to BoUandus. Supposed to mean Aventine. St. Valeria (i)» ^^c. 9, 12, V. M. 1st century. One of the patrons of Paris and of Limoges. Daughter of St. Susanna. They were converted and baptized with six hundred persons of their household, by St. Martial, at Limoges, where they entertained him when he came to preach the gospel in France. St. Gregory of Tours places the mission of Si Martial in the 3rd century. Valeria was betrothed to her cousin Stephen, duke of Guienne, who had immense territories in France. On her conversion she made a vow of virginity and gave her lands and slaves to the Church. After her mother*8 death she distributed all her money and jewels to the poor. Stephen entered the town of Limoges and ordered Valeria to be brought to him. They had an inter- view and she revised to marry him. He therefore ordered her to be beheaded. When her head was cut off she took it up in her hands, carried it into the church, and presented it to St. Martial, who was saying mass. Many of the by- standers saw her soul, like a globe of fire, ascending to the skies, and they heard the angels singing and welcoming her. The duke's squire, who was her executioner, ran and told his master what had happened and was immediately smitten by an angel and fell dead. Stephen was seized with terror, put on a hair shirt and sent for St. Martial, to whom he confessed his guilt, begging him to restore the squire to life, which Martial did, and both were baptized with fifteen thousand of the people. Stephen gave St. Martial the means of building and adorning many churches, and built a hospital at Limoges, in the name of the