Actually the term "My Bloody Valentine" may be fitting since.....there were three of them but one was St. Valentine, a priest martyred in Rome in 269 CE, buried in the Flaminian Way. He was marrying lovers when Roman Emperor Claudius II had banned marriage. Martyred meant off with your head back then. This was one of three and the facts are really disjointed. There was another St. Valentine in the late 2nd century, also beheaded. A third was martyred in Africa. The head of one of them, is preserved in abbey of New Minster, Winchester. Another head is on display in Rome. OH this gets complicated. Not sure which one that was. He also is associated with curing blindness and epilepsy; as he had cured the blind daughter of his jailer, so she could read letters from "your Valentine." Love is severed heads. I think this is very beautiful and poignant. I would have a wedding there....
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