Did Cupid Ever Strike Valentine?
Once upon a time, around the 4th Century, there lived a man in the city of Rome. Ever loved by the people he was known as St. Valentinus. He had the heart to perform wedding for soldiers who were forbidden to marry and ministering Christians. Out raged by this act, Roman Emperor Claudius II had him arrested and sentenced to death. In audience with the emperor, Valentinus managed to Impress him with his words. Claudius attempted to talk Valentine into conversion of Roman Paganism and save his life, and Valentine refused and tried to get him to convert into Christianity instead. Because of this, he was executed. Legend says that before his execution he performed a miracle, healing his jailer's blind daughter Julia (the jailer's Daughter and his forty-four member household of servants of the empire converted to Christianity thereafter.) He wrote her a letter signed " your Valentine" as farewell. As decades passed, folk tales evolved there came into being many