Valentine's Day is one of the most widely recognized celebrations of love, marked by millions around the world with flowers, chocolates, and heartfelt messages. But how did this holiday come to be?

"Some believe that Valentine’s Day is celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of Valentine’s death or burial," History.com added.

Typically, I choose the latter. But this week’s issue of This Week in History will go down in history as my first deep-dive into a holiday. Upon finding an off-putting Valentine’s Day card from the ...

Valentine's Day 2023 is Tuesday, February 14. Here's how the holiday originated and why people still celebrate across the globe. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap messages ...

The exact history of Valentine's Day is a bit murky, but some historians believe the holiday is linked to Lupercalia, a pagan festival that was held annually between Feb. 13 and Feb. 15 in ancient ...

It was around 1913 that Valentine's Day literally became a Hallmark holiday. The card maker started to mass-produce valentines, and from that point, romance and commercialism went into overdrive.

There are various theories of who the holiday is named after. Valentine's Day may have taken its name from a priest martyred by the emperor Claudius II Gothicus in 270 CE, according to Britannica ...

Pope Gelasius declared Feb. 14 as St. Valentine’s Day in 496 AD, and the rest is this history.

At the end of the 5th century, the celebration of Lupercalia was forbidden by Pope Gelasius I, who is often attributed with replacing it with St. Valentine’s Day, according to Britannica.

The exact history of Valentine's Day is a bit murky, but some historians believe the holiday is linked to Lupercalia, a pagan festival that was held annually between Feb. 13 and Feb. 15 in ancient ...