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February 14 is Valentine’s Day. Although it is celebrated as a lovers’ holiday today, with rite giving of candy, flowers, or oth
February 14 is Valentine’s Day. Although it is celebrated as a lovers’ holiday today, with rite giving of candy, flowers, or oth
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February 14 is Valentine’s Day. Although it is celebrated as a lovers’ holiday today, with rite giving of candy, flowers, or other gifts between couples in love, it originated in 5th Century Rome as a respect【46】______St. Valentine, a Catholic bishop.
For eight hundred years before the【47】______ (establish) of Valentine’s Day, the Romans had【48】pr a pagan(异教徒) celebration in mid-February honoring young men’s ceremony of passage to the god Lupercus. The celebration was characterized by lottery in【49】______young men would draw the names of【50】teen.______ girls from a box. The girl given to each young man in this way would be his companion the rest of the year.
In an effort to do away with such a【51】f______, Pope Gelasius ordered a slight change in the lottery. Instead of the names of young women, the box would contain the names of saints.
【52】______the men and women were allowed to draw from the box, and the game was to【53】imi______the ways of the saint they drew during the rest of rite year. However, ninny young Roman men were not too pleased【54】______the copying. Instead of the pagan god Lupercus , the Church looked for a suitable saint of love to take his【55】p______. They found an appropriate choice in Valentine, who, in AD 270 had been killed by Enter Claudius.
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imitate
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