 | Alban Butler - Christian saints - 1798 - 592 pages
...the clock struck, the sign of of the cross, with a fervent aspiration on the passion of Christ. He severely forbade the custom of Valentines, or giving...boys, in writing, the names of girls to be admired and attended on by them : and, to abolish it, he changed it into giving billets with the names of certain... | |
 | John Brady - 1815 - 428 pages
...drawing the names of girls, in honour of their goddess Februata, or Juno, on th« 15th of February, several zealous pastors substituted the names of saints in billets given on that day," says a respectable writer ; and Valentine is alleged to have been conspicuous in overthrowing... | |
 | Great Britain - 1837 - 392 pages
...boys drawing the names of girls, in honor of their goddess Februata, Juno, on the 15th of February, several zealous pastors substituted the names of saints in billets given on that day.' Gower and Chaucer attest the antiquity of the custom in England ; and a letter dated in... | |
 | Alban Butler - Christian martyrs - 1845 - 442 pages
...when the clock struck, the sign of the cross, with a fervent aspiration on the passion of Christ. He severely forbade the custom of Valentines, or giving...boys, in writing, the names of girls to be admired and attended on by them : and, to abolish it, he changed it into giving billets with the names of certain... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pages
...set with diamonds." Alban Butler relates of the admirable St. Francis of Sales, that, circa 1602, he severely forbade the custom of valentines, or giving...boys, in writing, the names of girls to be admired and attended on by them : and, to abolish it, he changed it into giving billets with the names of certain... | |
 | Alban Butler - Fathers of the church - 1845 - 272 pages
...boys drawing the names of Girls in honour of their goddess Februta Juno, on the 15th of this month, several zealous pastors substituted the names of saints in billets given on this day. See January 29, on St. Francis de Sales. • ST. MARO, ABBOT. From Theodore! Philoth. c. 16. 22. 24.... | |
 | 1879 - 492 pages
...boys drawing the names of girls in honour of their goddess, Februata Juno, on the 14th of February, several zealous pastors substituted the names of saints in billets given on that day. S. Francis de Sales, he says, severely forbade the custom of Valentines, or giving boys in... | |
 | Sports - 1847 - 72 pages
...boys drawing the names of girls, in honour of their goddess Februata Juno, on the 15th of February, several zealous pastors substituted the names of saints in billets given on that day." The only suitable reply to this is — Honi soil qui mat y pen.se. Shrove Tuesday, or Shrove... | |
 | John Brand - 1849 - 574 pages
...boys drawing the names of girls, in honour of their goddess Februata Juno, on the 15th of February, several zealous pastors substituted the names of Saints in billets given on that day." See his Account of St. Valentine. And in vol. i., Jan. 29, he says, that " St. Frances de... | |
 | William Francis Cleary - 1850 - 240 pages
...boys drawing the names of girls, in honour of theit goddess Februata Juno, on the 15th of this month, several zealous pastors substituted the names of saints in billets given on this day. We find that in all ages and conntries the pastors of the Church have laboured hard to abolish this... | |
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severely forbad the custom of Valentines, or giving Boys in writing the names of Girls to be admired and attended on by them ; and, to abolish it, he changed it into giving billets with the names of certain Saints, for them to... 
