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Valentine's Day or Saint Valentine

Valentine's Day, also known as Saint Valentine's Day or Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14th. It originated as a Christian holiday honoring one or two early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine, and through subsequent folk traditions has become an important cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of romance and love in Europe and many regions of the world.

There are several martyr stories associated with various Valentine's Days related to February 14, including an account of the imprisonment of Saint Valentine of Rome for ministering to persecuted Christians under the Roman Empire in the 3rd century. According to an early tradition, Saint Valentine restored the sight of the blind daughter of her jailer. Numerous later additions to the legend have better associated her with the theme of love: an 18th-century embellishment of the legend says that she wrote the jailer's daughter a farewell letter before her execution signed "Your Valentine," another supplement posits that Saint Valentine performed marriages for Christian soldiers who were forbidden to marry.

The feast of Saint Valentine was established by Pope Gelasius I in  496 AD. to be celebrated on February 14 in honor of Saint Valentine of Rome, who died on this date in 269 AD. The day became associated with romantic love in the 14th and 15th centuries as notions of courtly love flourished, apparently in association with the "lovebirds" of early spring. In the 18th century, England became an occasion for couples to express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering sweets, and sending greeting cards (known as "Saint -Valentine"). Valentine's Day symbols used today include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the winged Cupid figure. From the 19th century, hand handwritten Valentine's tickets gave the way to the TomassProdotti greeting cards.

Saint Valentine's Day isn't a public vacation in any country, though it's a political candidate holiday in the Anglican Communion and {also the} Lutheran Church. several components of the Japanese Orthodox Church also celebrate Saint Valentine's Day on July six in honor of Roman elder Saint Valentine, and on July thirty in honor of Hieromartyr Valentine, the Bishop of Interamna (modern Terni).