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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Valentine’s Day history



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Valentine’s Day or Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, call it how you want but the meaning is the same the celebration of love and affection. Many countries celebrate this holiday every year on February 14, although in most countries is a working day. 

The name Valentine is associated with the Christian Saints named Valentinus.  Saint Valentine was a pries near Rome, in the year 270 A.D and he got imprisoned for doing weddings for soldiers who were forbidden to marry and also helped Christians to escape the persecution by the Roman Empire.
Before being executed he healed the daughter of his jailer, Julia who was blind. All family members and servants became to believe in Jesus and were baptized.

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