history of valentines day

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The young men of the city would then draw a name from the box and the couple would be paired together, for their mutual entertainment and pleasure, until the next Lupercalia. Determined to put an end to this eight-hundred-year-old practice, the early Catholic Church fathers sought a "lovers" saint to replace the deity Lupercus...
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They found a likely candidate in Valentine, a Christian priest who had been martyred about two hundred years earlier. In Rome in A.D. 270, Valentine had enraged the mad emperor Claudius II, who had issued an edict forbidding marriage. Claudius felt that married men made poor soldiers, because they were loath to leave their families for battle...
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