Valentine

Holy Martyr Valentine of Viterbo was a priest at Viterbo and received martyrdom in the year 304, in the persecution of Maximian, together with the deacon Hilary, on the Via Strata, according to his passio. In the founding charter of the monastery of Farfa a church dedicated to Valentine is first mentioned, which stood in Silice, now part of Viterbo. Around 880 the bones of Valentine and of Hilary of Camigliano are said to have been moved to the monastery of Farfa. They reached Viterbo, it seems, only in the sixteenth century. Their commemoration is on 3 November (new style). They are saints of the undivided Church, venerated in the Catholic Church.