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I found this tidbit on Saint Valentine from a Catholic website.
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St. Valentine is the Patron Saint of affianced couples, bee keepers, engaged couples, epilepsy, fainting, greetings, happy marriages, love, lovers, plague, travellers, and young people. He is represented in pictures with birds and roses and his feast day is celebrated on February 14.
The records are spotty, but he was executed by the Romans for refusing to denounce Christianity and secretly marrying Christian couples.
It is claimed that he healed a blind child's eyes....perhaps that is why he is the patron saint of epilepsy?
I don't get the connection between a blind child and epilepsy.
I guess it was a bad connection on my part. I was thinking that epilepsy is sometimes started by flashing lights like in those anime cartoons. So I was connecting it to seeing.
I guess it was a bad connection on my part. I was thinking that epilepsy is sometimes started by flashing lights like in those anime cartoons. So I was connecting it to seeing.
Oh, lol.
Yes, a seizure can be set off by flashing lights, but it doesn't really have anything to do with sight.
I have a great-niece with epilepsy. She is six years old. At our family party a few weeks I was taking some pictures in the house, and my niece (her mother) ran over to warn me not to use the flash when photographing her daughter because it could set off a seizure. I would have felt awful had I done so.
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