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January 31, 2008

Valentine’s Day, February 14th

Filed under: Events — admin @ 3:52 pm

Every February, across the world, people in love exchange candy, flowers and kisses in the name of Saint Valentine. Valentine’s Day started in the time of theRoman Empire. In a time were marriages were not allowed because it stopped soldiers from joining the army, the priest Valentine secretly married couples. For his actions, Valentine suffered martyrdom on the 14th day of February, which later came to be known as the day of people in love.

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