Layla's Picks: Valentine Love

Valentine Love

Yes. I'm doing a post about love. What's wrong with that?

How do you like to be shown love on Valentine's Day?

-candy hearts with sweet messages

-chocolate hearts

-bouquet of flowers-your choice!

-a card

-a hug (or a kiss-hee hee!)

I'd like chocolate hearts-cute and yummy! Anyways, in case you don't know the story, I'll tell you.

St. Valentine was a Roman priest in the time when there was an emperor called Claudias who persecuted the church at that time. Claudias also had a command that would not let young people marry. This was because of the assumption that unmarried soldiers fought better than married soldiers because married soldiers might be afraid of what might happen to them/their families if they died.

St. Valentine was all about the idea of encouraging the people to marry within the Christian church. He secretly helped them marry because of the command.

Valentine was eventually caught, imprisoned, and tortured for performing marriage ceremonies against the command of the emperor. One of the men to judge him in line with the Roman law at that time was a man called, Asterius, whose daughter was blind.

St. Valentine was supposed to have prayed with and healed her with such an astonishing effect that Asterius became Christian as a result.

Valentine was sentenced to death all because of his stand for Christian marriage. The story goes that the last words he wrote were in a note to Asterius' daughter. He inspired today's romantic letters by signing it, 'from your Valentine'.

Valentine has come to be known as the saint of love.