Saint Valentine presides over romantic love. His feast day marks a day and night in which couples around the world exchange flowers, chocolates, and other tokens of affection. Facebook statistics suggest something else is brewing beneath the candle-lit dinners—something darker. The two weeks immediately before and after Valentine's Day record the highest changes in relationship status from "dating" to "single." This irony perhaps makes sense when we look at the original hagiography of this martyr from Ancient Rome, which has nothing to do with love. Tonight, discover how an obscure patron saint of epilepsy, beekeeping, and the plague became a Christian Cupid.