In a glass reliquary in the church of Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin in Rome is a skull adorned with flowers. The inscription on the forehead identifies the skull as the chariot of St. Valentine, patron saint of lovers.
However, it is complicated who exactly's skull is. There is over a saint of the Holy Roman Catholic Church named Saint Valentine. In addition, about 1.500 years passed from the death of these martyrs to the enthusiastic dispersal and naming of their remains in the 19th century. Finally - and this is the most worrying - there are no less than 10 places in the world that claim the possession of the real relics of the saint.
We do not know much about the men behind the legend, but at least two Valentines lived in Italy in the late 3rd century, and another in North Africa at about the same time. The "mythology" around Valentino focuses on the fact that he was the patron saint of lovers and, in 496 AD, Pope Gelasius I established February 1 - originally the day of the Lupercalia celebration in Ancient Rome - as a day dedicated to Valentine's Day.
Source: RES - EIA