It is about the origin of Saint Valentine's day. Include some review questions.

1. Story

2.  He is associated with a tradition of
courtly love since the High Middle
Ages.
 Christianity venerates him on February
14.
 Nobody knows exactly who was him.

3.  There are three posibilities:
a) A Christian executed (3rd century).
b) A Christian priest executed (AD 270).
c) A Christian who fell in love staying in
prison (3rd century).

4.  A Christian priest
executed (AD 270)
during the govern of
Claudius II because he
performed forbidden
marriages secretly of
roman soldiers.
 This happened when
the emperor needed a
lot of soldiers.
Saint Valentine receives a rosary from
the Virgin, by David Teniers III

5.  He was a Roman
executed because he was
a Christian.
 While he was in prison,
he fell in love with the
daughter of the prison
keeper.
 He wrote a letter to her,
signing it
`fromyour valentine´.

6.  After being exhumed from the cemetery in
Via Flaminia, on the initiative of his
disciples, St Valentine was carried to Terni.
 Today, it is an
important
destination for
couples.

7.  The origin of this Christian festivity is, as much
others, in a pagan festivity known as festival of
Lupercalia.
 Lupercalia was a Roman festivity celebrated on
15 February.
 This
festivitiy
was
christened,
like
Christmas.

8. Questions

9.  In Terni, Italy.

10.  The daughter of his prison keeper.

11.  Because the
emperor needed a
lot of soldiers
during wartime.

12.  Festival of Lupercalia