Valentine's Day: From Ancient Saints To Candy Hearts - Anniston Star

http://onlywire.com/r/45216729 Article by at 2011-07-11 05:23:40 Categorized in Articles, In tennis, love means nothing. A love seat was initially meant to seat one woman and her wide dress. Love handles are what you get from eating too much chocolate. Here, in honor of Valentine’s Day, is a look at love in all its many splendors. Will the real Valentine please stand up? Yes, Virginia, there really is a Saint Valentine — although nobody’s sure exactly who he was. The Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine. The most popular legend holds that Valentine was a priest in third-century Rome who performed secret weddings after the emperor outlawed marriage for young men, reasoning that single guys made better soldiers. Another legend holds that Valentine was martyred for helping Christians escape from Roman prisons. Another story has Valentine in prison, where he fell in love with the jailor’s daughter and wrote her a letter signed, “From your Valentine.” In 1835, what a