in early roman history,about 548AC the romans were given to feastivity and all sort of pleasures,which was more cherishable by younger men ,instead of beign enlisted in the Army.
This was an Act that made the roman emperor as at that time,Emperor claudus the II very angry,and isssued an order that all eligible young male should not marry but rather be enlisted into the roman Amry to fight Battle.
This was a daring and marching order of the Emperor,it was not liked by the young men whose eager desires were pleasures.
This began for some time,until clans man, named valetine who was busy marrying young romans secretly in a cave,against the will of the emperor.
He however suceeded in marrying off alot of roman citizens,Against the wish of the emperor who reigned in high respect and dignity of Honour.
Valetine practices was brought to and absrupt end,when was caught and reported to the emperor,whose fury could not be contained,but had valetine been thrown in prison.
A very bastardly act which kill the hope of roman young citizen of eventuallly getting the chance to marry.
In prison,valetine got to know the emperors daughter who always come to check on him.However they ended up loving themselves,while he was in prison.while on the part of the emperor he had issued a death warrant to valetine in prison.
Knowing this fact,the daughter quickly reached out to valetine in prison and informed him about the suituation.the hero of love find it hard to contain other than left her with a piece of writeup,which was not opened until after is execution on feb 14th.After his execution the emperor found the piece of write up and declared feb 14 a public holiday to be marked as saint valetines day.signifying the justification of a man who died for love.
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