A feast of St. Valentine was foremost appointed around 496 by Pope Gelasius I, who involved Valentine— & Saint George— among those "...whose names are justly reverenced among men, but whose acts are known only to God." A creation of a feast for such dimly formed numbers can use been an attempt to supersede the heathenish holiday of Lupercalia that was still existence celebrated around 5th century Rome, in February 15.

Based on data from a Catholic Encyclopedia, the saint whose feast was celebrated on the day currently called Valentine's Day was possibly one of the three martyred men who lived in the late 3rd century during the reign of Emperor Claudius II (died 270):

a priest in Rome a bishop of Interamna (modern Terni) a martyr in the Roman province of Africa.

These come believed that a priest & a bishop Valentinus are every buried along a Via Flaminia outside Rome, at different lengths from a city. In the 12th century, a Roman city gate known within ancient days when the Porta Flaminia (now called a Porta del Popolo) was known as a Gate of St. Valentine.

When Gelasius implied, nothing is known all about a peoples of any one martyrs, but. Numbers of of the todays legends surrounding the two were invented in the late Middle Ages in France and England, when a feast day of February 14 became associated with romantic love. There are no such sentiment appears in the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine, compiled about 1260 & one of a virtually all-review books of the High Middle Ages. A Legenda Aurea gives sufficient details of the saints & for every day of the liturgical season to inspire the preachment on the occasion. A super brief vita of St Valentine, has him refusing to deny Christ prior to a "Emperor Claudius" in the season 280. Prior to his head was smitten bump off, this Valentine restored sight & hearing to the girl of his screw. Jacobus makes a play by having the etymology of "Valentine," "as containing valour", however there exists nothing of hearts & previous notes signed "from your Valentine," equally is another time suggested around modern works of sentimental piousness [http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/golden169.htm].

A historical Second-century bishop Valentinus (died ca 153) is not venerated in any day of the Roman Catholic calendar, for his teachings were declared dissident & his works suppressed. Valentinus or even Valentinius was a better known & for a instance the virtually all successful Christian Gnostic theologian, and the magnetic though factious figure. Elastic of his followers may however become uncovered in the 5th century, after the further acceptable Valentinus was recollected & canonized.

Within 1836, relics that were exhumed from a catacombs of Saint Hippolytus on the Via Tiburtina near Rome, were identified with St Valentine, set within the golden casket & transported to the Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland, to which they were donated by Pope Gregory XVI. Numbers of tourer visit a angelical remains in St. Valentine's Day, after the casket is carried around solemn procession to the high altar for a favorite Mass dedicated to immature humans & a lot people soft on. Alleged bodily relics of St Valentine too lie at a reliquary of Roquemaure in France.

A saint's feast day was flushed from either a Ecclesiastical calendar around 1969 as part of the wide effort to dislodge saints of strictly legendary origin. A feast day is however celebrated locally around occasionally parishes.

Understand as well: Valentine's Day, La Fete du Baiser