
Valentine's Day
Victorian Valentine's Card
Also called Saint Valentine's Day
Valentine's
Observed by Many countries
Type Cultural, Christian, commercial
Significance Love and affection celebrated between lovers
Date February 14
Observances Sending greeting cards and gifts, dating
Saint Valentine's Day, commonly shortened to Valentine's Day,[1][2][3] is an annual commemoration held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions.[1][3] The day is named after one or more early Christian martyrs, Saint Valentine, and was established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD. It was deleted from the Roman calendar of saints in 1969 by Pope Paul VI, but its religious observance is still permitted. It is traditionally...