Valentine, St
According to tradition, a bishop of Terni martyred in Rome, now omitted from the calendar of saints' days as probably nonexistent. His festival was 14 February, but the custom of sending ‘valentines’ to a loved one on that day seems to have arisen because the day accidentally coincided with the Roman mid-February festival of Lupercalia.
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