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The Story of St. Valentine
The Roman Emperor Claudius II was fighting many wars. He
wanted a
strong army, but many men did not want to be soldiers.
Claudius thought
the men wanted to stay home to be with their wives and
children instead
of leaving to fight wars.
Claudius thought of an awful solution to his problem. He
decided to cancel
all marriages! No one in all of Rome could get married.
Claudius thought
that if the men couldn’t get married, the men would ignore
the women
and want to be soldiers.
Valentine, who was a priest, believed that people needed to
get married.
He thought that if they were not married, they would be
tempted to sin by
living together without being married. So he secretly and
illegally married
couples anyway! He performed the weddings in secret places,
so the
Roman soldiers would not find out.
But they did find out. Valentine was arrested and brought
before the
Emperor. The Emperor thought Valentine was a well spoken and
wise
young man, and encouraged him to stop being a Christian and
become a
loyal Roman. Valentine would not deny his beliefs, and he
refused. He was
sent to prison until he could be executed. While he was in
prison, he sent
out letters to his friends and asked to be prayed for by
writing Remember
your Valentine.
Valentine was killed on the 14th or the 24th of February in
the year 269 or
270. We celebrate Valentine’s Day on February 14th in honor
of St.
