VALENS OF MURSA. See Ursacius.

VALENTINE, val'en-taro: The name of several saints honored as martyrs in the early Church and in the Middle Ages. 1. Near Rome, on the Via Flaminia, is the ceme tery of St. Valentine, a Roman priest, whose name is found under Feb. 14 in medieval martyrologies. He was confused, if not originally identical, with Valentine, bishop of Spoleto, or with Valentine, bishop of Terni, though the Bern manuscript of the Martyrologium Hieronymianum places the latter under Apr. 14, and does not designate him bishop. The acts of both the priest and the bishop Valentine are late and untrustworthy. 2. The oldest Carthaginian martyroIogy records a Valentine under Nov. 13, but of this martyr, who was apparently an African, nothing more is known, except that the Bern manuscript already men tioned places him under Feb. 14. 3. There is mention of another Bishop Valentine, who labored in Rhaetia in the first half of the fifth century. According to Eugipius (Vita Severini, xli.), he was abbot and bishop of the Rhaetians and died on Jan. 6 of an unknown year. Churches were dedicated to him in Noricum, and his grave was at Mars, near Meran in Rhaetia. In 768 his remains were brought to Passau. The "Acts" of this saint, which date from about the beginning of the eleventh century, describe him as coming from the east to the vicinity of Passau, where he long labored as a missionary bishop. Since his sermons here made scant impression, he besought Leo I. to translate him to some other sphere of activity. ' The pope twice refused, but at length permitted Valentine to retire to the Tyrolese Alps, where he died shortly afterward. Such is the gist of a lead tablet which, claimed for the fifth century, can scarcely be older than the twelfth.

(A. Hauck.)

Bibliography: On 1 ASB, Feb., ii. 753-754, cf. ib. Jan., i. 368, end 369-372; A. Roachmann, Glavbwfirdipe Nachrichten van . . . Valentin, Ulm. 1746; K. Schana- hofer, Valentine . . . Raiaen, AuJenthaTt wad GrabsttUta in Mais, Botzen, 1794; Valentin, der . .. . erster Bischof von Passau, Mainz, 1889; Rettberg, KD, i. 220-221. ii. 133, Hauck, KD, i. 380.

VALENTINE, MILTON: Lutheran; b. near Uniontown, Md., Jan. 1, 1825; d. at Gettysburg, Pa., Feb. 7, 1906. $e was educated at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, Pa. (A.B., 1850), where he was a tutor (1850-52); he was ordained to the ministry (1852); pastoral supply at Winchester, Va. (1852-53); missionary at Alleghany, Pa. (1853-54); pastor at Greensburg, Pa. (1854-55); principal of Emmaus Institute, Middletown, Pa. (1855-59); pastor of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church at Reading, pa. (I859-66), professor of ecclesiastical history and church polity in the theological seminary at Gettysburg, Pa. (186fi1868); president of Pennsylvania College (1868-1884); professor of systematic theology and chairman of the faculty of the Lutheran theological seminary at Gettysburg (1884-1903). He was associate editor of The Lutheran Quarterly in 1871-76, 1880-85, and also after 1898. He was the author of Natural Theology, or Rational Theism (New York, 1885); . Theoretical Ethics (Chi cago, 1897); and Christian Truth and Life (Phila delphia, 1898).