Prayer to Saint Valentine for Married Couples
Little is known for certain about the third-century martyr behind Saint Valentine, but devotion to him as a patron of love, engaged couples, and happy marriages goes back centuries, long before the modern holiday built around his name. This prayer asks his intercession in that older, quieter sense.
Saint Valentine, you gave your life rather than deny your faith, and Christians have long turned to you as a patron of love and marriage. Watch over my marriage and keep it faithful. Help my spouse and me to love each other with a love that costs something, the way true love always does. Ask God to protect our home from anything that would divide us, and to fill it instead with patience, tenderness, and joy. Saint Valentine, pray for us.
