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- Claudius was a funny kind of
chap. His chief contribution to Roman Society of the time was to outlaw
marriage. He felt
married men made rotten soldiers since they were reluctant to be away from their families.
Valentine, a Bishop,
Disagreed.
Believing that youth should be free to marry, he secretly performed service of matrimony
and united the couples who came to him.
- For this efforts , Valentine
was eventually caught and brought before Claudius. Realising that he couldn't persuade Val
to stop his deplorable activity, the emperor sentenced him to be beaten , stoned and
decapitated. The gruesome death is supposed to have occurred on February 14, AD 270
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