Valentina
Valentina is a symbolic memorial placed beside Saint Valentine — for everyone who has ever loved, and for everyone who has ever received a note signed “your Valentine”.
Legend says that the imprisoned priest Valentine restored the sight of his jailer’s daughter and, before his execution on 14 February, left her a letter signed “from your Valentine” — the words later carried by every valentine card. In some tellings the girl is called Julia; in the 16th-century painting by Jacopo Bassano she is Saint Lucilla, baptized by Valentine.
Light a candle or leave flowers here for someone you love.
A memorial on Digital Cemetery, an endless map you can explore. This grave stands at coordinates 2, -4.
Related memorials:
- Saint Valentine — related
More historical figures on Digital Cemetery:
- Vivian Maier
- Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
- Hendrik Lorentz
- Pablo Picasso
- Vasco da Gama
- Gordie Howe
- J. B. S. Haldane
- Alexandre Dumas
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Rudyard Kipling
- Giacomo Leopardi
- Alexander Borodin
- Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici
- Anders Celsius
- Daniel Defoe
- Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg)
- Paul Erdős
- Kahlil Gibran
- Jérôme Bonaparte
- Jean-François Millet
- George Westinghouse
- Christiaan Huygens
- William Whewell
- Arthur Cayley