Valentine

Josef T. Rotter (1747/1748) (link)

Feast Day February 14

Patron of Lovers, Engaged Couples, Happy Marriages, Beekeepers

Situations Engagement, Epilepsy, Love, Plague

Professions Beekeepers, Greeting Card Manufacturers

Saint Valentine was a priest and physician in Rome who was martyred around 269 AD under Emperor Claudius II. According to tradition, he secretly married Christian couples when marriage was forbidden to soldiers, and healed the blind daughter of his jailer. His feast day became associated with romantic love in the Middle Ages.