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The very brief vita of St Valentine states that he was executed for refusing to deny Christ by the order of the "Emperor Claudius" in the year 269. [32] Before his head was cut off, this Valentine restored sight and hearing to the daughter of his jailer.
The Old Cape Henry Light, completed in 1792, was the first federal construction project under the United States Constitution. The history of Virginia Beach, Virginia, goes back to the Native Americans who lived in the area for thousands of years before the English colonists landed at Cape Henry in April 1607 and established their first permanent settlement at Jamestown a few weeks later.
The relics of Saint Valentin de Terni, the patron of the St Valentine's Day, are in the Catholic church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Saint-Jean-l’Evangéliste, located in the southern France town of Roquemaure, Gard. The celebrations of "Fête des Amoureux" takes place every two years on the Sunday closest to February 14. The village gets ...
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Virginia Christian (August 15, 1895 – August 16, 1912) was an African American teenager executed by the state of Virginia. Convicted of first degree murder for killing her white employer Ida Belote, Christian became the only female minor executed in the United States in the 20th century. Virginia Christian left school at age 13 to work for ...
A skull enshrined in a glass reliquary and attributed to St. Valentine is seen at St. Mary in Cosmedin Basilica in Rome on Feb. 12, 2022. / Credit: Riccardo De Luca/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images.
Virginia Beach (colloquially VB) is the most populous city in the U.S. commonwealth of Virginia.The population was 459,470 at the 2020 census. [2] Located on the southeastern coast of Virginia, it is the sixth-most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic and the 42nd-most populous city in the U.S.
Grace White Sherwood (1660–1740), called the Witch of Pungo, is the last person known to have been convicted of witchcraft in Virginia.. A farmer, healer, and midwife, she was accused by her neighbors of transforming herself into a cat, damaging crops, and causing the death of livestock.