00:00The king wanted war and he would say that if you have love, then your tendency to be ferocious and
00:08violent reduces.
00:10So therefore he said that young men should be dedicating their energies towards war, bloodshed, violence, these things.
00:17Saint Valentine, he said this won't do.
00:20So when he would find genuinely loving couple, he would arrange for them to get married.
00:26He was not someone who wanted man pitted against man.
00:31So he is arrested and put into the jail.
00:35There he grew into affection for the jailer's daughter and she happened to be blind.
00:41He restored her eyesight and this is metaphorical.
00:45The true meaning has to be understood.
00:47You see, he's a saint.
00:48He is no ordinary lover.
00:49So when it is said that he restored her eyesight, what it means is that he got her in the
00:55fold of the religion of Jesus.
00:58And he gave this vision to her.
01:00And in that sense, he gave her eyesight.
01:03Just before he was to be executed, martyred, he wrote her a letter.
01:08And in that letter, he signed off with your valentine.
01:12There was the first letter in which someone declared himself as somebody's valentine.
01:20His skull ornamented with flowers is still on display in Rome.
01:25I'm actually very, very fond of Saint Valentine's.
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