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On February 14, around the year 270 A.D., Valentine, a holy priest in Rome in the days of Emperor Claudius II, is said to have been executed. He helped inspire the holiday of Valentine's Day. The ancient Romans may also be responsible for the name of our modern day of love. Emperor Claudius II executed two men — both named Valentine — on Feb. 14 of different years in the third century. Third-century Roman priest Valentinus was brutally beaten and beheaded after marrying couples in defiance of Emperor Claudius II's ban on the sacrament of marriage on this day in history, Feb. 14 The 1st Valentine was a priest and physician in Rome who comforted the martyrs during the persecution of Emperor Claudius II. This is likely the same Valentine jailed by the Emperor (without the modern twist of fiction about being in love with the jailer’s daughter). There was also a 2nd St. Valentine, and he too suffered persecution under In the third century AD, Roman Emperor Claudius II was having trouble recruiting for his legions. To many he was “Claudius the Cruel” which may have had something to do with his problem, but that’s not how he saw it. To Emperor Claudius, such reluctance could only mean that Roman men were excessively devoted to their wives and families. When the secret came to light, Roman Emperor Claudius ordered Valentine’s execution on 14th February 269. His martyrdom was brutally carried out by beheading. Valentine was buried in Terni near the present Basilica, in a cemetery that already existed in pagan times, where several objects of the 4th and 5th centuries were found. In the early martyrologies, three different St. Valentines are mentioned, all sharing Feb. 14 for a feast day. The 1st - A Roman Priest during the reign of Emperor Claudias II who persecuted the church at that particular time," an edict prohibited the marriage of young people. This was based on the hypothesis that unmarried soldiers fought better than married soldi VALENTINE?The saint of the day biography for February 14th from our Morning Offering daily devotional email:St. Valentine of Rome (c. 270) was a priest who lived in Rome during the reign of Emperor Claudius II. Little is known of his life with certainty, except that he ministered to Christians who were persecuted and imprisoned The day gets its name from a famous saint, but there are several stories of who he was. The popular belief about St Valentine is that he was a priest from Rome in the third century AD. Emperor Claudius II had banned marriage because he thought married men were bad soldiers. For an occasion that celebrates romantic love with the giving of chocolates and roses, Valentine’s Day has surprisingly grisly origins. The day is named after a Christian priest, Valentinus, who lived in the late third century AD and was beheaded on the orders of the pagan Roman emperor Claudius II on 14 February, a date subsequently commemorated by Christians as his feast day. Valentine’s Day is a holiday celebrated every February 14; this year Valentine's Day falls on a Friday. Across the United States and in other places around the world, candy, flowers and gifts By some accounts, St. Valentine was a Roman priest and physician who was martyred during the persecution of Christians by the emperor Claudius II Gothicus about 270. He was buried on the Via Flaminia, and Pope Julius I reportedly built a basilica over his grave. The emperor, Claudius II also outlawed marriage for his soldiers, thinking that a married man didn’t make as good of a soldier as a single man. During this time, a Christian priest named Valentine lived near Rome The Golden Legend of 1260 recounts how St. Valentine refused to deny Christ before the "Emperor Claudius" in 270 and as a result was beheaded. [48] Since then, February 14 marks Valentine's Day, a day set aside by the Christian church in memory of the Roman priest and physician. [49] Claudius II was impressed by Valentine's kindness. He said that Valentine could go free if he would worship the Roman gods. Valentine refused. Instead, he tried to convert Claudius II to Christianity. This made Claudius II furious. He ordered Valentine to be killed. During the days before his execution, Claudius prayed for 4. The First Valentine’s Day Cards & Commercialization. By the 1700s and 1800s, Valentine’s Day had become a widely recognized celebration of love. People exchanged handwritten love letters, poems, and small tokens of affection. However, the modern Valentine’s Day industry didn’t take off until the 19th century, thanks to two major Although there were several Christian martyrs named Valentine, Valentine’s Day may have taken its name from a priest who was martyred about 270 CE by the Roman emperor Claudius II Gothicus. Other accounts hold that it was St. Valentine of Terni , a bishop, for whom the holiday was named, though it is possible that the two saints were actually When the Roman Empire became a Christian nation rather than Pagan, Lupercalia became outlawed because it was deemed "un-Christian." Then, at the end of the 5th century, Pope Gelasius declared February 14th as St. Valentine's Day. By Rob Durocher, Minister of Worship and the Arts. Long before Brach’s and Whitman’s began selling heart-shaped boxes of candy and Hallmark cards and a dozen roses and ‘let me call you sweet-heart’ became the focus of Valentine’s Day, February 14 th was a much-celebrated Festival Day in the liturgical church year because it commemorated the death of possibly THREE St. Valentines all Saint Valentine performed Christian marriages in secret at a time when the Roman Emperor Claudius II had banned marriage for young men, believing that unmarried soldiers made better fighters. Saint Valentine's actions in performing these marriages were seen as an act of defiance against the emperor's edict.
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