Saint Valentine’s Day or Valentine’s Day

Is a holiday observed on February 14 honoring one or more early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine.

It’s traditionally day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery and sending greeting cards.  The day first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished.

It was first established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD, and was later deleted from the General Roman Calendar of saints in 1969 by Pope Paul VI.