What is Saint Valentine?
{{Infobox Saint |name=Saint Valentine |birth_date= |death_date=c. 269<ref name=patron>{{citation|last=Jones|first=Terry|title=Saint Valentine of Rome|url=http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-valentine-of-rome/|accessdate=21 January 2010}}</ref> |feast_day=February 14 (Roman Catholic Church) <br />July 30 (Eastern Orthodox Church) |venerated_in=[[Roman Catholic Church]]<br />[[Eastern Orthodox Church]]<br />[[Anglican Communion]]<br />[[Lutheran Church]] |image=Valentineanddisciples.jpg |imagesize=200px |caption=Depicts Saint Valentine and his [[disciple]]s |birth_place= |death_place= |titles= |beatified_date= |beatified_place= |beatified_by= |canonized_date= |canonized_place= |canonized_by= |attributes=[[bird]]s; [[rose]]s; [[bishop]] with a [[cripple]]d or [[epilepsy|epileptic]] child at his feet; bishop with a [[rooster]] nearby; bishop refusing to [[idolatry|adore an idol]]; bishop being [[decapitation|beheaded]]; [[priest]] bearing a [[sword]]; priest holding a [[sun]]; priest giving sight to a [[Blindness|blind]] girl<ref name=patron/> |patronage=[[fiance|affianced couples]], against [[fainting]], [[bee keeper]]s, happy [[marriage]]s, [[love]], [[Bubonic plague|plague]], [[epileptics]]<ref name=patron/> |major_shrine= |suppressed_date= |issues= }} '''Saint Valentine''' is the name of many [[martyr]]ed [[saint]]s that lived in [[Ancient Rome]]. At least three different people named Valentine are said to have died on the 14th of February.<ref name=newadvent>{{citation|last=Knight|first=Kevin|title=Catholic Encyclopedia: St. Valentine|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15254a.htm|work=New Advent|year=2009|accessdate=21 January 2010}}</ref> Even though nobody knows who exactly Valentine was and where he came from, it has been confirmed that he existed because [[archaeologist]]s discovered a [[church]] dedicated to Valentine.<ref name=catholiconline>{{citation|title=St. Valentine - Saints & Angles|url=http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=159|year=2010|work=Catholic Online|accessdate=21 January 2010}}</ref>