There are many stories going around Valentines celebration. All versions agree that there was a Roman priest who was behead and there were a blind girl involve on the events.
Please find below an extract from Lisa Bitel – Professor of History & Religion, University of Southern California. - Article where she describes the events slightly different from your points. The sad reality is that we will never now for sure which one of the all versions is the accurate one!
I’m also including the link so you can read the full article.
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Roman priest named Valentinus was arrested during the reign of Emperor Gothicus and put into the custody of an aristocrat named Asterius.
As the story goes, Asterius made the mistake of letting the preacher talk. Father Valentinus went on and on about Christ leading pagans out of the shadow of darkness and into the light of truth and salvation. Asterius made a bargain with Valentinus: If the Christian could cure Asterius’s foster-daughter of blindness, he would convert. Valentinus put his hands over the girl’s eyes and chanted:
“Lord Jesus Christ, en-lighten your handmaid, because you are God, the True Light.”
Easy as that. The child could see, according to the medieval legend. Asterius and his whole family were baptized.
Unfortunately, when Emperor Gothicus heard the news, he ordered them all to be executed. But Valentinus was the only one to be beheaded.
A pious widow, though, made off with his body and had it buried at the site of his martyrdom on the Via Flaminia, the ancient highway stretching from Rome to present-day Rimini. Later, a chapel was built over the saint’s remains. -
https://theconversation.com/the-real-st-valentine-was-no-patron-of-love-90518
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