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Aladdin Paperbacks, 1999-01-01

Saint Valentine (Repackage)

Saint Valentine (Repackage)

Robert Sabuda, Author

Robert Sabuda, Illustrator

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9780689824296

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A physician and a Christian priest during a time when Christians are being persecuted, Valentine miraculously restores a blind girl's sight in this retelling of a story about a saint martyred in A.D. 270. Full color.
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An elegant and thoughtful exploration of love, sacrifice, and courage through exquisite paper engineering. This book reminds readers of the power behind kindness and dedication across time.

Keywords and Themes: Biography & Autobiography • Celebration • Courage • Dedication • Devotion • History • Honor • Juvenile Nonfiction • Kindness • Love • Religious (See Also Religious - Christian • Sacrifice • Storytelling

Readability • 5.4

Age Range • 4-7

Pages • 32

Subjects • Valentine • Christian martyrs • Italy • Rome • Saints

Categories • Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Religious (See Also Religious - Christian

In ancient Rome there lived a gentle and humble man named Valentine. He was a physician, but he was also a Christian priest whose life and freedom were in constant danger in a city of people who believed in so many gods, not just one. So Valentine tended to his patients in the daytime, but he prayed for them only at night.

One day a jailer from the emperor's prison appeared at Valentine's door with his small child, a girl who was blind. Knowing the difficulty of curing blindness, Valentine vowed to do his best, and over the weeks of treatment and prayer the three became fast friends. But even his friendship with the jailer could not save Valentine when the Roman soldier came to imprison him.

Here, accompanied by Robert Shabuda's dramatic mosaics evoking the time period in which the story takes place, is the story of a man whose goodness and faith brought about a miracle, and whose name lives on today in one of our most celebrated holidays.

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