# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saint-valentine
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:03:37.784Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/saint-valentine"
name: "Saint Valentine"
slug: "saint-valentine"
description: "A 3rd-century Roman clergyman martyred for ministering to persecuted Christians, his February 14 feast day somehow became the Western world's template for romantic love — a medieval pivot that turned a martyr's death into Valentine's Day."
tagline: "3rd-century Roman Christian saint"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/San_Valentino_da_Terni_(cropped).jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "175"
deathDate: "0273-02-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.37705466666667
  currentAttention:     8.428571428571429
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 91
tags:
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  - name: "Medicine"
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  - name: "Ancient History"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomh_Vailint%C3%ADn"
    title: "Naomh Vailintín"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Naomh Bhaileintin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  He was either a priest or a bishop in the Roman Empire, tending to Christians under persecution until his execution. His body was buried on the Via Flaminia on February 14, a date observed as his feast since at least the eighth century. By the High Middle Ages, that commemoration had fused with courtly love tradition, though the link remains historically murky. His skull, crowned with flowers, sits in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin in Rome; other relics draw pilgrims to Dublin's Whitefriar Street church, especially those hunting love. He's also patron saint of Terni, epilepsy, and beekeepers. In 1969 the Catholic Church pulled him from the General Roman Calendar, though he remains a recognized saint and local calendars still mark the day.