Saint Valentine

by Robert Sabuda

Paper Book, 1992

Status

Available

Call number

B200AD

Genres

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Nonfiction

Publication

New York : Toronto : New York : Atheneum ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992.

Description

Recounts an incident in the life of St. Valentine, a physician who lived some 200 years after Christ, in which he treated a small child for blindness.

User reviews

LibraryThing member riofriotex

Very little is known about the real Saint Valentine. There may have been as many as three, but all were martyrs with a feast day of February 14. This book focuses on the St. Valentine of Rome, who lived in the latter half of the third century and may have been a doctor as well as a Christian

priest. It relays some of the legends about him. I really love the illustrations by Robert Sabuda, using "mosaics created from marbleized and hand-painted papers (adhered to gray speckletone paper)," as stated on the verso of the book.

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LibraryThing member katherine.arena

Used this book for my b ackground knowledge lesson for Methods of methods class and it can be construed as controversal because there are so many different legends on Valentine's Day, but this is a good book and enjoyed reading and learning from it. 32 pages

LibraryThing member KristenRoper

The mosaic illustrations are excellent and set the reader in the time period well, but narrative leaves a lot to be desired. The focus is on Valentine, a priest and physician, and his relationship with a jailer and his blind daughter. The story ends abruptly when Valentine is arrested and a note he

leaves for the daughter miraculously heals her. There's very little religious context for Valentine as the Christian, the saint, or the martyr.

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