Saints don't fall in love, but their stories can be romantic. Legends have long paired male and female saints as intimate but chaste companions - St. Paul and St. Thekla proselytized together in first-century Syria, for instance, and St. Boniface and St. Leoba were buried together in the wilds of medieval Germany. Although those who recorded saints' lives borrowed motifs from love stories, the romance of saints lay in their resistance to ordinary human pleasures.