The TRUE story of Valentine's Day

[Misty]

I don't think I've met a single person on the internet who has known the TRUE story of Valentine, its not about candy hearts, chocolate, or even about a persons love for that 'special somebody'
It's about a man named Valentine:

Valentine was a roman priest, Emperor Claudias had an edict that prohibited the marriage of young people. This was based on the hypothesis that unmarried soldiers fought better than married soldiers because married soldiers might be afraid of what might happen to them or their wives or families if they died.

And so it immediately presented the problem to the Christian church of what to do about this.

The idea of encouraging them to marry within the Christian church was what Valentine was about. And he secretly married them because of the edict.

Valentine was eventually caught, imprisoned and tortured for performing marriage ceremonies against command of Emperor Claudius the second.

One of the men who was to judge him in line with the Roman law at the time was a man called Asterius, whose daughter was blind. He prayed with and healed the young girl with such astonishing effect that Asterius himself became Christian as a result.

In the year 269 AD, Valentine was sentenced to a three part execution of a beating, stoning, and finally decapitation all because of his stand for Christian marriage. The story goes that the last words he wrote were in a note to Asterius' daughter. He inspired today's romantic missives by signing it, "from your Valentine."


I hope you all have a wonderful day ^.^ Happy Valentine!

[Lexi]

Awh.... Poor Valentine :'(((

[sunshine lollipops]

Interesting.