Today's Namesake

St. Valentine is the patron saint of love, young people, and happy marriages, and also bee keepers, epilepsy, and various and assorted other things. Did you know that he was beaten to death and then beheaded by Roman Emperor Claudius II in 270 A.D. when he refused to renounce the Christian faith? Have a Happy Valentine's Day but don't forget the man for which it is named.

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