St Valentine's Day Is Coming Up Feb. 14th

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smiley said:
is there a religious story around all of this as in "St Valentine" who was he or she??
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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 logistics. He is also a patron saint of Terni, epilepsy, and beekeepers.[2][3] Saint Valentine was a clergyman – either a priest or a bishop – in the Roman Empire who ministered to persecuted Christians.[4] He was martyred and his body buried on the Via Flaminia on February 14, which has been observed as the Feast of Saint Valentine (Saint Valentine's Day) since at least the eighth century.[5]

Saint Valentine - Wikipedia
 
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