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Origin of the name VALENTINUS.
Etymology of the
name VALENTINUS.
Meaning of the baby name VALENTINUS.
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VALENTINUS. Roman
name meaning "healthy" and "valiant," from valeo (to be
well).
Valentinus
was a Roman priest, who is said to have endeavoured to give a Christian
signification to the old custom of drawing lots in honour of Juno
Februata, and thus fixed his own name and festival to the curious
fashion prevailing all over England and France, of either the choice of
a "true Valentine," or of receiving as such the first person
of the opposite sex encountered on that morning.
These customs increased the popularity of Valentine
and Valentina,
the latter being more probably used as the feminine of the former, than
as the name of an obscure martyr who died under Diocletian. (History of
Christian Names, Yonge, 1884)
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