VALENTINE’S DAY, HOW IT ALL GOT STARTED

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The greatest gift a parent can give their children is for those two children to see two adults daily treating each other with love and respect.

Two hundred and fifty years plus after the birth of Jesus, Emperor Claudius was totally committed to rebuilding the once-great Roman army.

He however believed that it was important for men to volunteer rather than be drafted. 

The problem was that most men preferred to stay at home with their wives and children than go off into battle. 

Claudius came to the conclusion that only way to solve this problem was to officially declare marriage illegal…so he issued an edict banning all further marriages. It earned him (ALONG WITH OTHER THINGS) the not too endearing nickname of Claudius the Cruel.

Meanwhile, there was a priest by the name of Valentine who thought the edict ridiculous. Indeed, one of the favorite times of his priesthood was the performing of marriage ceremonies.

So he simply just went on performing these ceremonies in secret.

He would whisper the vows so no one could hear them through an open window and so he could hear any approaching soldiers come to arrest him.

But one night his luck ran out.

The couple he had been marrying escaped but he was captured and thrown into jail. 


Now, many of the young couples he had married came to visit him in jail.


They tossed flowers and notes up to and through the barred window to his cell. 
It was their affirmation of the love he had protected and proclaimed, the marriages the emperors had wanted stopped. 

One day the daughter of one of the prison guards came to visit. Her father allowed the two to visit and talk for hours.


She believed the had done the right thing by ignoring the Emperor’s decree.


On the day Valentine was due to die, he left her a note thanking her for her friendship and loyalty.


He signed it, “Love from Valentine.”

And so the custom of sending Valentines began.

And the day he died and sent his “Love from Valentine” note.

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