Valentine and Marius assisted the martyrs during the persecution under Claudius II.
Valentine was captured and when he would not renouce his faith, was beaten with clubs, and afterwards, he was beheaded on February 14, about the year 270.
The church began to commemorate his death in 496 AD, when it was added to the western church's official Calendar of Remembrance.
Tradition holds that that on the day he was executed for his faithfulness to Christ, he left a note to encourage his prison guard's son. This not was written on an oddly shaped piece of parchment/paper.
Tradition further contends that this note of encouragment and the odd shape of the parchment/paper is where the current Valentine's Day pattern for the expressions of love, encouragment and devotion came from.
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