St. Valentine's Day and Epilepsy
- epilepticbooklover
- Feb 24
- 1 min read
As I write this, I didn’t know what to put in the Subject line. Does that have to do with my Epilepsy? Maybe.
Or maybe, it’s because I don’t want to talk about the fact that Valentine’s Day and Epilepsy share the same Saint? How romantic is that? Historically, Epilepsy is known as the “falling sickness” and in German, there’s a phonetic similarity between Valentine and Fallen.
There are other legends that a third Century Bishop named Valentine von Terni freed the son of a Roman Orator from an Epileptic Seizure.
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