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Legends of the Valentine’s Day Edition Two At that time, Rome inside and outside war frequent , lived on the edge of starvation. Claudius gives an order that soldiers must enter Rome troops , and gives orders to forbid fellow countrymen holding getting married ceremony .But Valentine helped a pair getting married. And the thing is very quickly having been heard of. Thereupon he had been demonstrated cruelty once more causes suffering to a friar make selfs way into a jail , ultimate lethal. Friar that day dying is February 14, A.D. February 14 for 270 years. ? Edition One Legend says that Saint Valentine had been jailed for defying the Emperor .And he left a farewell note on the day he was executed for the jailers daughter, who had become his friend, and signed it From Your Valentine. In 496 A.D. Pope Claudius set aside February 14 to memorialize him. development In the United States, Miss Esther Howland is given credit for sending the first valentine cards. Commercial valentines were introduced in the 1800s and now the date is very commercialised. The town of Loveland, Colorado, does a large post office business around February 14. The spirit of good continues as valentines are sent out with sentimental verses and children exchange valentine cards at school. The ancient Romans celebrated a holiday for lovers more than 2,000 years ago. As part of the celebration, girls wrote their names on pieces of paper and put them in a large container. Boys reached into the container and pulled out the name of a girl. That girl became his girlfriend or sweetheart for a year. 2000 多年前，古罗马人就开始庆祝情人们的节日。 作为情人节庆祝活动的一部分，姑娘们把她们的名字 分别写在一张张纸条上，然后把纸条放进一个大盒子 里。小伙子们把手伸进盒子里抽出姑娘的名字。被 抽中的姑娘就要在一年之内做他的女友或是心上人。 Papers Custom Lovers still put their names on pieces of paper. They send each other Valentines Day cards that tell of their love. Sometimes they also send other gifts too, like jewelry or flowers or candy. Americans usually send cards through the mail system or in a