February 14 honors the memory of St. Valentine of Rome, a priest who was martyred on this day in the year 270.
A brief biography of St. Valentine is featured in Butler’s Lives of the Saints.
Valentine was a holy priest in Rome, who, with Saint Marius and his family, assisted the martyrs in the persecution under Claudius II. He was apprehended, and sent by the emperor to the prefect of Rome; who, on finding all his promises to make him renounce his faith ineffectual, commanded him to be beaten with clubs, and afterwards to be beheaded, which was executed on the 14th of February, about the year 270.
Generally speaking, this is most of what we know about the real St. Valentine with any certainty. After his death many legends were composed about him.
Who was the real St. Valentine? @AleteiaEN https://t.co/J7SWZHLvEd
— Jeff McLean (@mclean) February 14, 2022