By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing - Should Catholics celebrate St. Valentine’s Day? The best recommendation for celebrating it at all, I think, is that in our tradition three different martyred saints have been called “Valentine,” and the feast day for all three of them is February 14th... At least so states the Catholic Encyclopedia, in an article by judicious scholar, Fr. Herbert Thurston, S.J., famous for his skepticism about legends: One is described as a priest at Rome, another as bishop of Interamna (modern Terni), and these two seem both to have suffered in the second half of the third century ...