Put the Saint back into Valentine's Day!

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Put the Saint back into Valentine's Day!

Tuesday February 14th, 2006. This is show # 32.

BEST QUOTE OF THE SHOW:
From H.L.I. spokesman, Jason Jones:
People are shocked to find out the history of Saint Valentine's Day. Even good Christians have never heard the story. But the emperor Claudius The Second found that young men weren't enlisting for the military and he was having trouble increasing the size of his army. So he forbade marriage thinking this is a very short-sighted view because in the long-run it's definitely not going to put more men in the service of the nation. But, in a short-sighted view, he prohibited marriage. But a catholic priest [Valentine] continued to marry young couples..., eventually gets thrown into prison and sentenced to death. The couple he tried to marry [had] a relative who was one of the prison guards, so the story goes, and the priest passed a note to the couple apologizing for all their troubles and he signed it, "Truely your Valentine." And that's where we got the history and the tradition of passing Valentine's [cards], to celebrate the sacrament of marriage.
 
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