We know he is the patron saint of love, young people and happy marriage. Feast day February 14th.
Seems that around the year 269, Valentinus was a Roman priest. He was caught marrying Christian couples and aiding people being persecuted during the reign of Claudius II. Such things were considered a crime.
Valentinus was captured and imprisoned. Claudius came to like Valentinus until he tried to convert the emperor. Valentinus was condemned to death.
Before he died, legend says he cured his jailers daughter of blindness and on the eve of his death he wrote a note to the jailers daughter and signed it "from your Valentine".
St. Valentine was a priest martyred in Rome in 269.
