Some say that St Valentine was a priest and a physician who lived in Rome in the third century AD.
Emperor Claudius II had banned marriages, believing married men made bad soldier.
However, St Valentine is thought to have arranged marriages in secret.
Consequently, He was incarcerated and condemned to death for his alleged crimes.
St Valentine apparently fell in love with the jailer’s daughter and sent her a love letter signed ‘from your Valentine’ on February 14th, the day of his execution, as a goodbye.
The feast of St Valentine of February 14th was first established in 496 by Pope Gelasius I, who included Valentine among all those "... whose names are justly reverenced among men, but whose acts are known only to God."