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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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2019-05-03
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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 tribute【C1】______St. Valentine, a Catholic bishop.
For eight hundred years before the【C2】______(establish)of Valentine’s Day, the Romans had【C3】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【C4】 ______young men would draw the names of【C5】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【C6】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.
【C7】______the men and women were allowed to draw from the box, and the game was to 【C8】imi______the ways of the saint they drew during the rest of rite year. However, many young Roman men were not too pleased【C9】the copying. Instead of the pagan god Lupercus, the Church looked for a suitable saint of love to take his【C10】p______. They found an appropriate choice in Valentine, who, in AD 270 had been killed by Enter Claudius.
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practiced
解析
practise做动词有特殊含义:(do or perform sth.customarily)遵循,奉行(风俗、宗教、仪式等)。
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