The Real St. Valentine (Maybe)

No one really knows who the real St. Valentine was — but some believe he was a Roman priest who secretly married young Christians, an act outlawed by emperor Claudius II in the 3rd century A.D. Valentine was sentenced to death by Claudius and, legend has it, before he was brutally killed, Valentine blessed the blind daughter of his jailor and restored her sight, enabling her to read the love letter he'd written her, which he signed "from your Valentine." They would have lived happily ever after except St. Valentine was then beaten with clubs, stoned and, mercifully, beheaded.