Saint valentine

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Saint valentines day

• 14th February

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Saint Valentine

• This holiday is named after a real person
• Saint Valentine was a priest near Rome in the
  year 270 A.D, (the early days of the Christian
  church)
• During this time, lots of Christians were killed
• They had to practice their religion in secret

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What did he do?

• At this time marriage was prohibited by the Roman
  Empire.
• His mission was to help Christians get married in
  secret.
• Soldiers werent allowed to get married
• The Roman Emperor Claudius II wanted to make his
  army bigger and he believed that married men were
  not good soldiers

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Claudius the roman emperor

• Saint Valentine was jailed becvause he was a
  Christian by the Roman Emperor Claudius
• Claudius was impressed by Valentine and had a
  talk with him
• He told him if he changed his religion and became
  a pagan he wont kill him
• Valentine refused and tried to convert Claudius
  to Christianity instead.
• Because of this, he was killed.

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Julia Asterius Daughter

• Valentines jailer was a man named Asterius
• Asterius had a young daughter called Julia who
  was blind
• Before he was killed, Saint Valentine
• performed a miracle by healing Julia
• The jailer and all his family converted to
  Christianity and were baptized

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The first valentine card

• The night before Valentines death, he wrote the
  first "valentine" card himself
• He gave it to Julia, the daughter of his jailer,
  who was no longer blind
• He signed it From your Valentine.
• This expression "From your Valentine" is used
  today in Valentine cards in many countries

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Valentines day

• This day is now celebrated all over the world
• In the U.K. On Valentines day people give
  flowers, cards and presents to their loved ones
• Usually the restaurants and bars are very busy
  because couples go out for a romantic meal or
  drink

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Valentines poems

• A very common type of valentines poem starts off
  with
• Roses are red, Violets are
  blue...
• Can you invent one?
• E.g. Roses are red,
• violets are blue,
• sugar is sweet,
• and so are you.

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Discussion

• What do you think of Valentines day? Do you like
  it?
• What do you think the true meaning of Valentines
  day is?
• Do you think everyone enjoys it? Why/Why not?
• Did you get any Valentines cards?

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Happy valentines day