In the Middle Ages in Western Europe, St. Valentine grew up legends.
They talked about the secret weddings of couples in love. Emperor Claudius 2 forbade the soldiers to marry. Allegedly he thought that marriage distracts from the service. Valentine secretly crowned the willing and for this was sentenced to death.
In fact, it's legends are fiction. They are refuted very easily:
The Emperor Claudius 2 ruled Rome in the 3rd century. Then Christianity was not yet recognized as the official religion. Therefore, there could not have been any mass weddings of soldiers.
Christianity at that time was an outlandish sect. And the authorities were completely uninteresting, what they are doing there. If only they pay taxes and do not violate the laws. And it was always possible to marry in secret, in the end. Why would the emperor pay attention to the fun of a couple of sects?
Finally, in the third century, the rite of the Wedding itself did not exist.
My conclusion from this knowledge: People like beautiful fairy tales about love. Hence the wonderful legends of St. Valentine.
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The rites of marriage did not exist? I have not read the Bible since I was a child, but I seem to recall that Jesus was present at a wedding. When are you suggesting the rites were created? Is this claim based on the Catholic church, or do you include the Orthodox churches also?
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Pre-Christian marriage ceremonies existed in the third century, of course.
The sacrament of the wedding was not.
By the way, in the third century there was still no schism Catholic church and Orthodox.
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That is why I posed the question. I wanted to see whether you know it. Anyway, I am not interested in religion, so I cannot debate it any further. To me, any saint anyone wants to believe in, they are welcome, as long as I am not compelled to believe.
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I understand you.
I also divide the faith from philology and history.
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