From: Sokar949@msn.com   
      
   Vizards not wanted at the Popery: The Harry Potter Pope elected instead.   
   Pope Valentine   
   Date of birth unknown; died about October, 827. Valentine was by birth was   
   Roman, belonging to the Via Lata district. While still a youth he entered   
   the service of the Church. His biographer in the "Liber pontificalis" (ed.   
   Duchesne, II, 71-2) praises his piety and purity of morals, which won him   
   the favour of Paschal I (817-24). Paschal ordained him at the Lateran   
   palace, and placed him as archdeacon at the head of the Roman diaconate.   
   Valentine retained his influential position during the pontificate of Eugene   
   II (824-7), and after Eugene's death (27 August, 827) was unanimously   
   elected his successor by the clergy, nobles, and people of Rome. The   
   election had taken place at the Lateran whence the entire company proceeded   
   to Sancta Maria Maggiore, where Valentine was tarrying in prayer. He was led   
   to the Lateran basilica and placed upon the papal throne. After this,   
   probably on the succeeding Sunday, he was consecrated bishop at St. Peter's,   
   and then enthroned as pope. No information has been preserved of his brief   
   reign, he died after he had occupied the papal see forty days according to   
   the Liber pontificalis", and barely a month according to the testimony of   
   the "Annales" of Einhard (ad an. 827).   
      
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