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One of them says that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When eemperor Claudius decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and children, he outlawed marriages for young men. Valenine understood the injustice of this decree and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine’s actions were discovered, Claudius ordered to put him to prison and then to kill him.