The origins of Valentine's Day

❤Valentine's Day❤, (aka Saint Valentine's Day & the Feast of Saint Valentine) is celebrated around most of the world on the 14th of February🗓, but is not a public holiday in any nation. It began as a Western ✝Christian liturgical feast day, celebrated in some churches, honouring an early saint named Valentinus, but is now become more of a cultural & commercial celebration than a liturgical one. There are several legends about various Valentines. The most popular one is that of st. Valentine of Rome who was imprisoned for performing weddings who were forbidden to marry as well as ministering to ✝Christians, who were persecuted at the time under the Roman Empire🏛. The legend says that St. Valentine healed the daughter of his jailer & wrote her a letter r which he ✍signed as “Your Valentine” before he was executed. However, it was much later, in 14th-century England that it began to be associated with romantic ❤love & centuries later is now an occasion for lovers to express their ❤love for each other. Lovers present flowers, sweets, & greeting cards called ‘valentines’ in most parts of the world in celebration of the day.