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In Rome, 269 AD.The city did not sleep that winter.War drums echoed through the streets. Soldiers marched like shadows between torchlight and stone. Emperor Claudius II had one belief that ruled his heart harder than the empire he governed:Love makes men weak.So he outlawed it.No weddings. No vows. No promises between young men and women. Rome belonged to war now, not romance.But in a small chapel hidden between narrow alleys near the Tiber River, a quiet priest named Valentine believed something very different.Love makes men brave.And every night, when the city slept, lovers knocked softly on his wooden door.Three knocks.Pause.Two