WHAT DID THE ROMANS HAVE TO DO WITH THE LEGEND OF VALENTINE’S DAY!
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In this week’s archived show from previous years, the Garden Guru gave us a history lesson about the origins of Valentine’s Day.
Legend has it that back during the Roman Empire, there was this guy named Valentinas and he had this habit of cutting hearts out of red parchment paper and handing them out to people that he would run across. Now some of the people that he gave them to were soldiers of the Roman army… and one of the things that he was doing that kind of got him into trouble was that he was performing weddings for lovesick soldiers!
Now weddings were frowned upon by the folks of the Roman army because they thought that soldiers have to keep their mind on fighting and nothing else. So when they found out who was performing these weddings they rounded up poor little Valentina and they threw him in jail. Well, in jail he met the jailer’s daughter and she was blind! Legend has it that somehow he cured her blindness and the jailer became kind of fond of this Valentinas guy! So the jailer did him some special favors! And just before his execution… WELL… you need to listen to the Garden Guru to find out what happened to Valentinas?
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