A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
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January 28
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Thin entry · the 1914 book gives only 68 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.
Of this saint little is known, except that he associated with him S. Vincent, to speak for him, he having an impediment in his speech. When Dacian persecuted the Church, S. Valerius was taken to Valentia and there imprisoned. When brought forth and interrogated, his nervousness prevented him from articulating a word, therefore Vincent, the deacon, spoke for him.
Stay faithful when it costs you. This account is about holding firm under pressure.
Learn from the kind of life it was. A shepherd who stayed with his people through hard times.
Of this saint little is known, except that he associated with him S. Vincent, to speak for him, he having an impediment in his speech. When Dacian persecuted the Church, S. Valerius was taken to Valentia and there imprisoned. When brought forth and interrogated, his nervousness prevented him from articulating a word, therefore Vincent, the deacon, spoke for him. Vincent was ordered to execution, but Valerius was banished.
Feast: January 22
Traditional: January 28
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Valerius of Saragossa's story, and a nudge to keep going.
Image: San Valero, Francisco de Goya.jpg · Francisco Goya · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new and revised edition (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1914; first edition 1872). Public domain.
Image: Francisco Goya, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new and revised edition (Edinburgh: John Grant, 1914; first edition 1872). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.
