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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2061266, member: 42773&quot;]This coin was minted during her happy years, when she was married to Galerius. Her life is an intriguing window into the politics of the Tetrarchy. For whatever reasons, she had no children with Galerius, but she had the generosity of heart to adopt his illegitimate son Candidianus. Would you have done the same?</p><p><br /></p><p>After Galerius died, her life went downhill in a hurry. She and her mother were entrusted to the care of Licinius, but they fled from him. Is there any scholarship on why they were averse to Licinius?</p><p><br /></p><p>She refused the marriage proposal of Maximinus, so he confiscated all her property and banished her to Syria. When Maximinus died, Licinius, obviously still smarting from his rejection, ordered the death of both women. Valeria fled to Thessalonica, but she was discovered by the mob, beheaded in the central square, her body tossed into the sea.</p><p><br /></p><p>What could have provoked such anger and violence? There doesn&#039;t seem to be any record of Valeria inciting scorn through any actions other than spurning a few powerful men. She was sympathetic to Christians, and perhaps that was enough. In fact, she was eventually canonized.</p><p><br /></p><p>Her life appears to ask the age-old existential question of why bad things happen to good people...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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