One of the hardest things people go through in life is the end of a relationship. From feelings of hurt, loneliness, longing, and despair, recovering and moving on with your life after a breakup can be extraordinarily difficult. In fact, one the biggest obstacles many people experience when dating and seeking a spouse are feelings for a former love.

For help recovering and moving on from a past relationship and heartbreak, look to Saint Dwynwen, who is known and invoked as “The Welsh Saint Valentine”.

Saint Dwynwen was born in the 5th century and was the daughter of the king. According to golden legend, Saint Dwynwen was deeply in love with a young prince called Maelon Dafodrill. When Saint Dwynwen rejected Maelon’s sexual advances prior to marriage, he was enraged and quit speaking with her.

She prayed to God for deliverance from her heartbreak, and in a vision was given a sweet drink which released her from her heartache. The same drink was given to Maelon, who was turned into ice!

Again Saint Dwynwen prayed, and was given three wishes: the first that Maelon should be unfrozen, the second that she should never again desire marriage, and the third that God should answer all requests by her on the behalf of lovers to be released from heartache. Her prayers were granted, and she became a nun, founding a convent on a remote island. To this day, people still go to the ruins of this convent and pray near the well there for her intercession.