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and to catechize

and thus was an early forerunner of the kind of Christian thinking which would create modern science

When some were old enough to share this responsibility

The baby Jesus sleeps in the shade of the bush nearby

Saint Valentine's Legend – Based on Vintage Holy Card – Catholic Valentine Gift Choose Paper Size (Image is Smaller):8.5x11 unframed It is the work ofSaint Valentine lived in a very permissive, pagan society. Not only was it hostile to Christians, it was hostile to marriage. The Roman Emperor Claudius II had declared marriage illegal for his soldiers, as the Emperor Augustus had done previously. Some even say that he declared it illegal for all. In any event, Valentinus, a Roman doctor and Catholic priest, upheld the Christian tradition that marriage is a sacred bond between one man and one woman,