Etymology of the name
It would be useful for those who bear this name to find out the life story of the patroness of the name. One of them says that the martyr Valentina lived at the end of the third century AD. Unfortunately, only the story of her death has survived to this day. At that time, the lands of Palestine were ruled by Firmilian, who hated everyone who professed Christianity or at least somehow supported its ideology.
Together with the martyr Valentina, two more Christian women were brought to the ruler Firmilian - Hennatha from Gaza and Paula from the Caesarea region. Valentine refused to worship pagan idols, and when she was taken to the sanctuary of the polytheists to make a sacrifice to their gods, she desecrated the place of sacrifice when she threw a stone and turned her back to it. This infuriated the ruler and he ordered the soldiers to brutally beat her. After much torture, the women's heads were cut off.
As previously mentioned, the female name Valentina comes from the male name. Martyrs with that name stood up for their beliefs to the death. One of these Christians was Saint Valentine of Dorostol, who was executed in 288 AD. A thirty-year-old warrior from the army of the ruler of Absalone, he was not afraid to openly profess Christianity, for which he was martyred.
