Look up Valentine or valentine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A valentine is a card or gift given on Valentine’s Day, or one’s sweetheart. If an internal valentines flowers led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. For the holiday, see Valentine’s Day.

For the Canadian city, see Saint-Valentin, Quebec. Relics of him were kept in the Church and Catacombs of San Valentino in Rome, which “remained an important pilgrim site throughout the Middle Ages until the relics of St. Saint Valentine is commemorated in the Anglican Communion and the Lutheran Churches on February 14. Saint Valentine does not occur in the earliest list of Roman martyrs, the Chronography of 354, although the patron of the Chronography’s compilation was a wealthy Roman Christian named Valentinus.