Saint Valentine

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 bee…