Who was Saint Valentine on whose memory Valentine's Day is celebrated?

Question

His country, Was he a Lover?

Answer 1

Depends which one. There were at least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, and are mentioned in the early martyrologies under date of 14 February. One is described as a priest at Rome, another as bishop of Interamna (modern Terni), and these two seem both to have suffered in the second half of the third century . In the Middle Ages what was known to the ancients as the Flaminian Gate of Rome and is now the Porta del Popolo, was called the Gate of St. Valentine. Of the third Saint Valentine, who suffered in Africa with a number of companions, nothing is known so far.

As for St. Valentine's Day, it had their origin in a conventional belief generally received in England and France during the Middle Ages, that on 14 February, i.e. half way through the second month of the year, the birds began to pair. For this reason the day was looked upon as specially consecrated to lovers and as a proper occasion for writing love letters and sending lovers' tokens. Both the French and English literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries contain allusions to the practice. So basically, it was a custom that coincided with St Valentine's Day, and out of ignorance associate it with the Feast Day, when all it is is a coincidence.

Answer 2

Valentine’s Day probably all began as a religious competition, or banquet day, in honor of a Christian saint. there have been 2 saints named Valentine who lived in Rome in the third century. both look to have died on February 14. in the three hundred and sixty 5 days 496, the pope—the best of the Roman Catholic Church—declared February 14 to be Saint Valentine’s Day.

Answer 3

St. Valentine's Day contains traces of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. Who St. Valetine actually was is a mystery. The Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine, all of whom were martyred.
? Roman priest
? Italian bishop
? Martyr from one of Rome's north African territories