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Valentine is both a masculine and a feminine given name, and a surname, derived from the Roman family name Valentinus, which was derived from the Latin word valens, which means "strong and healthy". Valentine can be considered an English translation or adaptation of the names Valentinus or Valentinian .
Valentine (name), a given name and a surname, including a list of people and fictional characters so named Saint Valentine of Rome, the eponym of Valentine's Day; Pope Valentine, pope for two months in 827
Valentin is a male given name meaning "strong, healthy, power, rule". It comes from the Latin name Valentinus, as in Saint Valentin [further explanation needed].Commonly found in Argentina, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Romania, Russia, Scandinavia, Ukraine, Latin America and Spain.
St Valentine baptizing St Lucilla, Jacopo Bassano. J.C. Cooper, in The Dictionary of Christianity, writes that Saint Valentine was "a priest of Rome who was imprisoned for succouring persecuted Christians." [30] Contemporary records of Saint Valentine were most probably destroyed during this Diocletianic Persecution in the early 4th century. [31]
For Saint Valentine of Rome, along with Saint Valentine of Terni, "abstracts of the acts of the two saints were in nearly every church and monastery of Europe", according to Professor Jack B. Oruch of the University of Kansas. [10] Saint Valentine is commemorated in the Anglican Communion [11] and the Lutheran Churches on February 14. [12]
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Valent is both a surname and a given name (a form of Valentine). Notable people with the name include: Aaron Valent (born 1997), German politician; Dacia Valent (1963–2015), Italian politician; Dmitry Valent (born 1988), Belarusian kickboxer; Eric Valent (born 1977), American baseball player and coach; Géjza Valent (born 1953), Czechoslovak ...
Robert Valentine (composer) (c. 1671–1747), Anglo-Italian composer also known as Roberto Valentino; Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926), Italian-American silent film actor; Sal Valentino (born 1942), lead singer of The Beau Brummels; Thomas J. Valentino (died 1986), American businessman, among the first to develop libraries of sound effects and ...