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Posted on 02/14/2023 1:14:17 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
...In Rome in C.E. 270, Valentine enraged the emperor Claudius II,* who had issued an edict forbidding marriage. Claudius felt that married men made poor soldiers, because they would not want to leave their families for battle. The empire needed soldiers, so Claudius abolished marriage.
Valentine, bishop of Interamna, invited young couples to come to him in secret, where he joined them in the sacrament of matrimony. Claudius learned of this “friend of lovers,” and had the bishop brought to the palace. The emperor, impressed with the young priest’s dignity and conviction, attempted to convert him to the roman gods, to save him from certain execution. Valentine refused to renounce Christianity and boldly attempted to convert the emperor.
History also claims that while Valentine was in prison awaiting his fate, he fell in love with the blind daughter of the jailer, Asterius. Through his faith he miraculously restored her sight. He then signed a farewell message to her “From Your Valentine,” a phrase that would live long after its author....
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Valentine is a Christian saint. They couldn’t say 270 A.D.? They had to say C.E.?
We should refer to C.E. as Christ Era.
Excellent!
It’s still a fraudulent use of the Gregorian calendar. Everyone who uses CE instead of AD with the Gregorian year is a thief and liar.
AD it is for me.
Christ’s birth is still the fulcrum upon which the dates revolve regardless if they use BC/BCE/CE/AD. The whole calendar is based on His birth, whether they refuse to acknowledge it or not.
So there’s that.
Yes, but I’ve heard them say, “Jesus wasn’t even born in the year 1. He was born about 4 BCE.”
A guy named Al Capone sent his valentine to some in Chicago.... rat tat tat
St. Valentine was killed, because the Emperor wanted soldiers to be single guys and the Emperor killed anyone who married girls with the soldiers. St. Valentine believed in true love and died for it. His bones are located in a church in Rome. St. Valentine, ora pro nobis.
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