Valentin was a young bishop who lived in Rome, in the century III, d.C. Claudius II governed the Roman empire. The
Emperor had dictated a decree that prohibited all the welded
young people who were going to the war to contract marriage. Valentin, prisoner to the Christianity, considered the measurement unjust and summoned to the pairs secretly to unite them before God. In just a short time Claudius II, volume knowledge of the fact and sent to soldiers to stop it and who took it to the palace to their presence; when she was expensive to face with Valentin, it remained admired by his strong convictions and dignity, despite the Emperor,
tried in v anus to convince it so that it adored the Roman Gods, because of not doing it, it waited for a safe death to him. The bishop did not accept and not only that, but that ingenuously tried to turn it to the Christianity to Claudius II; this one made it immediately take to a cold jail. While it waited for the sentence, one fell in love with the blind daughter of his called jailer Aesterius. Before being executed Valentin it made see the blind girl, miracle that is attributed to him, and it gave a writing to him that said: “I am yours; Valentin”. Finally he was stoned and beheaded the 24 of February of year 230. Its fame began to grow and it became very popular, and the Romans began to recall the day of Valentin (soon Santo) instead of their God Lupercus, every year. You practice them that they abolished themselves were that the girls and the boys met in that date and they had to place their name in a ballot box, the young people at random removed the slip of paper with the name from the youngster and would be their pair by a year; soon to the other year, the election was repeated and so on