Valentine
martyr
Feast: 25 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
At Caesarea in Palestine, Saints Valentine, Thea and Paul, martyrs in the persecution of the emperor Maximian, under the governor Firmilian. The virgin Valentine, who had kicked over an altar dedicated to the pagan idols, after various cruel tortures ran to meet the Bridegroom, thrown into the fire together with the virgin Thea; Paul, instead, condemned to death, after obtaining a short time for prayer and imploring God with all his heart for the salvation of all, received the crown of martyrdom by beheading.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: she has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 25 July as a virgin martyr of Caesarea in Palestine who overturned a pagan altar and was thrown into the fire.
- Roman Martyrology, 25 July (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q113623202 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.