Valentine’s Day - 2013 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

[link]Valentine’s Day, also called St. Valentine’s Day,  day (February 14) when lovers express their affection with greetings and gifts. Although there were several Christian martyrs named Valentine, the day probably took its name from a priest who was martyred about ad 270 by the emperor Claudius II Gothicus. According to legend, the priest signed a letter to his jailer’s daughter, whom he had befriended and with whom he had fallen in love, “from your Valentine.”...Continue reading...