St. Bede the Venerable, De Nataliis Sanctorum, February 14th: “the feast of St. Valentine, bishop of Interamna : who was arrested by pagans and was beaten with rods, and after a lengthy beating was taken into custody; when he could not be overcome, he was silently taken out of the prison in the middle of the night, and was beheaded, by command of the furious Placid, prefect of the city. At this point A. Tunc Proculus, Efybus, and Apollonius, his disciples, transporting his body to his church at the city of Interamna, buried him at night: where they would sit with daily watchings (vigils); they were arrested by heathens, handed over to the custody of the Consular Leontius. He ordered them to be presented in middle of the night to their tribunals: and when they could not be recalled from faith by blandishments or threats, he ordered their heads to be cut off: who were buried not far form the body of St. Valentine.” (As cited by Rev. J. A. Giles, D.C.L., in his work “The Miscellaneous Works of Venerable Bede in the original Latin...”)