Traditional Catholic Novena

Novena to St. Valentine

Protection, intercession in present needs, deliverance from evils that threaten us, and perseverance among the faithful.

St. Valentine is traditionally invoked as patron of engaged couples, married love, beekeepers, epilepsy.

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Pray This Novena

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Begin the novena now, move one day at a time, and come back here whenever you are ready for the next day.

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About This Novena

This older St. Valentine novena is less sentimental than modern February associations might suggest. It presents him as an advocate and protector, asking his prayers in trouble now and his companionship in heaven at the final judgment.

Traditionally prayed for

Often prayed for engaged couples, married love, beekeepers, and epilepsy.

Usual timing

February 5 through February 13

Private intention

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Day 1: Advocate and Protector

Begin by asking St. Valentine to look with pity upon your wants.

Opening Prayer

Pray this same prayer each day after the day's meditation.

O glorious advocate and protector, Saint Valentine, look with pity upon our wants, hear our requests, attend to our prayers, relieve by your intercession the miseries under which we labor, and obtain for us the Divine blessing, that we may be found worthy to join thee in praising the Almighty for all eternity; through the merits of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Pray, then, O holy Martyr, for the faithful, who are so persevering in celebrating thy memory. The day of Judgment will reveal to us all thy glorious merits. Oh! intercede for us, that we may then be made thy companions at the right hand of the Great Judge, and be united with thee eternally in heaven.

Let us pray: Grant, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that we who solemnize the festival of blessed Valentine, Thy Martyr, may, by his intercession, be delivered from all the evils that threaten us. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Pause here for your intention.

Saint Valentine, advocate and protector, pray for us.

Often said for

engaged couplesmarried lovebeekeepersepilepsy

Traditional Catholic Novena

Novena to St. Valentine

9 daysFeast: February 14

Often prayed for protection, intercession in present needs, deliverance from evils that threaten us, and perseverance among the faithful.

Opening Prayer

Pause here for your intention.

Saint Valentine, advocate and protector, pray for us.

Daily themes

Use each daily focus below, then pray the principal prayer above. The same prayer is repeated each day. February 5 through February 13

Day 1: Advocate and Protector
Begin by asking St. Valentine to look with pity upon your wants.
Day 2: Hear Our Requests
Place your requests before God with confidence in St. Valentine's intercession.
Day 3: Relief in Misery
Pray for relief from the miseries and burdens weighing on you.
Day 4: Divine Blessing
Ask for God's blessing in a way that helps your soul, not only your circumstances.
Day 5: Persevering Faithful
Pray for the faithful who honor God's saints and seek holiness with perseverance.
Day 6: The Great Judge
Remember the day of judgment and ask to be found worthy of heaven.
Day 7: Delivered from Evil
Beg for deliverance from the evils that threaten body, mind, and soul.
Day 8: Special Intention
Mention your intention simply and entrust it to God through St. Valentine.
Day 9: Pray for Us
End by invoking St. Valentine again as advocate and protector, then conclude with the traditional prayers.