TERTULLA’S GARDEN
or
THE MIRACLE OF GOOD ST. VALENTINE

Characters

Valentinus, a priest of the Christian Church in Rome.

Asterius, chief officer of the Prefect Calpurnius.

Pertinax, overseer of farm and gardens at the country villa of Asterius.

Nerva, a boy, servant in the town house of Asterius.

Tertulla and Quartilla, unmarried daughters of Asterius.

Maronis, a woman servant in attendance on Tertulla and Quartilla.

Other servants.

Time: The fourteenth of February [the sixteenth day before the Kalends of March] during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius II [A. D. 268-270].