While Valentine's Day might be associated with romantic love, the real story behind its namesake, St. Valentine, is full of bloodshed and heartbreak.. There are multiple St. Valentines in history ...

Saint Valentine's feast could have been a replacement for Lupercalia, but Lenski said there's no hard proof of this. A lot about this day is very mysterious.

Saint Valentine is the patron saint of love, greeting card manufacturers, betrothed couples and happy marriages By Caleb Parke Fox News Published February 13, 2019 10:00am EST | Updated February ...

The Roman Catholic Church recognizes St. Valentine, the patron saint of lovers, epileptics, and beekeepers, as a church saint. But in 1969, he was removed from the General Roman Calendar due to ...

St. Valentine is a legendary Christian martyr who is connected to Valentine’s Day. Here are the various stories about his origin and how it relates to the holiday of love.

We do know that St. Valentine’s Day was already associated with love by the late 14th century. In England during the 1380s, Chaucer wrote two poems situating Feb. 14 as the day when birds choose ...

St. Valentine kneeling David Teniers III According to his equally dodgy legend , Terni’s bishop got into a situation like the other Valentinus by debating a potential convert and afterward ...

As couples across the world prepared for Valentine's Day in February 2025, a rumor cropped up on social media that St. Valentine is not only the patron saint of lovers, but also of beekeepers ...

The Feast of Saint Valentine (Saint Valentine's Day) has been observed each 14 February since then. In the high middle ages (1000-1250 AD), Saint Valentine became an icon for love and romance.

Saint Valentine's feast could have been a replacement for Lupercalia, but Lenski said there's no hard proof of this. A lot about this day is very mysterious.

St. Valentine was no lover or patron of love. Valentine’s Day, in fact, originated as a liturgical feast to celebrate the decapitation of a third-century Christian martyr, or perhaps two.