The girl’s name was Scholastica, and she was devout, well-born, and remarkably beautiful - a not insignificant detail, since the radiant charms of his future wife were bound to shake the boy out of his mystical reveries. His parents had already found him a fiancée. The heir had to assume his worldly responsibilities, marry, and make a name for himself. There was a fortune to be managed, land to be cultivated, a patrimony to be increased, and descendants to be ensured. However, this was not his family’s plan for him. It seems that Injuriosus was among those attracted to monastic life. Many of those Catholics lived their faith intensely and aspired to be all things to Christ, which explains the flowering of religious vocations.
His name was Injuriosus, “Injurious” in English, which is certainly not a name one would easily give to a new-born baby! Christianity had been well established in the region for nearly two centuries already. In Auvergne (near the center of what is now France) lived a young man belonging to the Gallo-Roman aristocracy. The story takes place in the 4th century. There’s a saintly couple you may not have heard of who have their own unique love story. Valentine is a patron saint of lovers, but he’s not the only saint we can invoke for love and marriage.
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