Quoted from Divinum Officium, Prima, Reduced 1955, date February 13, 2021, under the section entitled Martyrologium [1]:
February 14th 2021, the 2nd day of the Moon, were born into the better life:At Rome, upon the Flaminian Way, the blessed martyr Valentine, a Priest, who after much healing and teaching was cudgelled and beheaded under Claudius Caesar, [in the year 268.]
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At Teramo, [in Umbria, in the year 273,] the holy martyr Valentine, Bishop of that see. He was heavily flogged and committed to jail, but as he would not yield he was thrown out of the prison in the silence of midnight and beheaded by command of Placidus, Prefect of the city. There likewise, [in the year 273,] the holy martyrs Proculus, Ephebus, and Apollonius, who were watching by the body of holy Valentine when they were apprehended by order of Leontius, the consular, and slain with the sword.
Quoted below is from Wikipedia [2]:
The Catholic Encyclopedia and other hagiographical sources speak of three Saints Valentine that appear in connection with February 14. One was a Roman priest, another the bishop of Interamna (modern Terni, Italy) both buried along the Via Flaminia outside Rome, at different distances from the city. The third was said to be a saint who suffered on the same day with a number of companions in the Roman province of Africa, of whom nothing else is known.
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The inconsistency in the identification of the saint is replicated in the various vitae that are ascribed to him.
...Saint Valentine of Rome was martyred on February 14 in AD 269. The Feast of Saint Valentine, also known as Saint Valentine's Day, was established by Pope Gelasius I in AD 496 to be celebrated on February 14 in honour of the Christian martyr.
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[Professor Jack B. Oruch of the University of Kansas] charges that the traditions associated with "Valentine's Day", documented in Geoffrey Chaucer's Parlement of Foules and set in the fictional context of an old tradition, did not exist before Chaucer. He argues that the speculative explanation of sentimental customs, posing as historical fact, had their origins among 18th-century antiquaries, notably Alban Butler, the author of Butler's Lives of Saints, and have been perpetuated even by respectable modern scholars. In the French 14th-century manuscript illumination from a Vies des Saints (illustration above [omitted]), Saint Valentine, bishop of Terni, oversees the construction of his basilica at Terni; there is no suggestion here that the bishop was a patron of lovers.
Even though the remembrance of Saint Valentine as a martyr has been secularized and commercialized, February 14 is nonetheless a day to show love, including the love of God. "Whoever does not love remains in death....let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth." 1 John 3:14, 18 [3]
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine, quoted without references and hyperlinks.
[3] https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1john/3, quoted in part without reference.
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