Valentine's Day Is So Much Weirder Than We Thought
Ridiculous History
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The Origins of Saint Valentine
There seem to have been a number of guys named valentine who were murdered on the fourteenth of februaryjust name a running trend in the third century. A lot of these saints we dug up. All we got as a name and a time of death, but it's good enough. But valentinus was another guy. He was the bishop of tourney at only 21 years old. And one of the stories about him, its said that he heard two rs fighting, and he walked up to them and e said, hey, why don’t you each hold on to this rose together by the stem, and try not to prick your hands on the thorns
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