Valentine's Day celebrated as St. Valentine's Day in various Christian denominations; it has, for example, the rank of 'commemoration' in the calendar of saints in the Anglican Communion. In addition, the feast day of Saint Valentine is also given in the calendar of saints of the Lutheran Church. However, in the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints, the feast day of Saint Valentine on February 14 was removed from the General Roman Calendar and relegated to particular (local or even national) calendars for the following reason: "Though the memorial of Saint Valentine is ancient, it is left to particular
Valentine Collins Bristol F.2b piloted by Lieutenant King defeated a Fokker D.VII which was sent out of control over Senlemont. Lieutenant Valentine St. Barbe Collins was killed in action at age 24 on 2 September 1918 in France. He is commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial at the Faubourg d'Amiens Cemetery on the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France. Killed with him was Captain Brian Laidley Dowling from Sydney, Australia, who was piloting D7790. He is commemorated on the same memorial. Valentine Collins Lieutenant Valentine St. Barbe Collins (2 January 1894 – 2 September 1918) was a World