St. Valentine (died 3rd century, Rome; feast day February 14) was the name of one or two legendary Christian whose lives seem to have a historical basis. Although the continues to recognize St. Valentine as a , he was removed from the General Roman Calendar in 1969 because of the lack of reliable information about him. He is the of lovers, people with , and . Who was St. Valentine? St. ValentineSt. Valentine; engraving by Cibera, 1853.(more)By some accounts, St. Valentine was a Roman and physician who was during the persecution of Christians by the emperor about 270 ce. He was buried on the Via Flaminia, and Pope reportedly built a over his grave. Other narratives identify him as the of , , who was martyred, apparently also in , and whose were later taken to Terni. It is possible these are different versions of the same original account and refer to only one person. Relics Numerous churches around the world claim to be in possession of his relics. These include his skull on display in a glass reliquary at the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin in Rome, a housed at the Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul in (after having been discovered in the church’s basement in 2002), a vessel tinged with his blood in addition to sundry other artifacts at the Whitefriar Street Church in , and relics kept inside a wax effigy of the saint situated in front of the altar of Old St. Ferdinand Shrine in Florissant, ., Saint Valentine (Italian: Valentino; Latin: Valentinus) was a 3rd-century Roman saint, commemorated in Western Christianity on February 14 and in Eastern Orthodoxy on July 6. From the High Middle Ages, his feast day has been associated with a tradition of courtly love., St. Valentine (died 3rd century, Rome; feast day February 14) was the name of one or two legendary Christian martyrs whose lives seem to have a historical basis..