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    Valentine's Day is celebrated annually on February 14 and originated as a Christian feast day honoring early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine, through later folk traditions it has become a celebration of romance and love. Saint Valentine is said to have ministered to Christians persecuted under the Roman Empire and restored sight to his jailer's daughter. While not a public holiday, Valentine's Day involves exchanging gifts between loved ones such as flowers and greeting cards.

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    Valentine's Day is celebrated annually on February 14 and originated as a Christian feast day honoring early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine, through later folk traditions it has become a celebration of romance and love. Saint Valentine is said to have ministered to Christians persecuted under the Roman Empire and restored sight to his jailer's daughter. While not a public holiday, Valentine's Day involves exchanging gifts between loved ones such as flowers and greeting cards.

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    Valentine's Day is celebrated annually on February 14 and originated as a Christian feast day honoring early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine, through later folk traditions it has become a celebration of romance and love. Saint Valentine is said to have ministered to Christians persecuted under the Roman Empire and restored sight to his jailer's daughter. While not a public holiday, Valentine's Day involves exchanging gifts between loved ones such as flowers and greeting cards.

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    Valentine's Day, also called 

    Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine,[1] is celebrated


    annually on February 14.[2] It originated as a Christian feast day honoring one or two early Christian
    martyrs named Saint Valentine and, through later folk traditions, has become a significant cultural,
    religious, and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world.[3]
    There are a number of martyrdom stories associated with various Valentines connected to February
    14,[4] including an account of the imprisonment of Saint Valentine of Rome for ministering to
    Christians persecuted under the Roman Empire in the third century.[5][6] According to an early
    tradition, Saint Valentine restored sight to the blind daughter of his jailer. [7] Numerous later additions
    to the legend have better related it to the theme of love: an 18th-century embellishment to the legend
    claims he wrote the jailer's daughter a letter signed "Your Valentine" as a farewell before his
    execution;[8] another addition posits that Saint Valentine performed weddings for Christian soldiers
    who were forbidden to marry.[6]
    The Feast of Saint Valentine was established by Pope Gelasius I in AD 496 to be celebrated on
    February 14 in honour of Saint Valentine of Rome, who died on that date in AD 269. [9][10] The day
    became associated with romantic love in the 14th and 15th centuries when notions of courtly
    love flourished, apparently by association with the "lovebirds" of early spring. In 18th-century
    England, it grew into an occasion in which couples expressed their love for each other by presenting
    flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). Valentine's Day
    symbols that are used today include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the
    winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have given way to mass-produced
    greeting cards.[11] In Italy, Saint Valentine's Keys are given to lovers "as a romantic symbol and an
    invitation to unlock the giver's heart", as well as to children to ward off epilepsy (called Saint
    Valentine's Malady).[12]
    Saint Valentine's Day is not a public holiday in any country, although it is an official feast day in the
    Anglican Communion[13] and the Lutheran Church.[14] Many parts of the Eastern Orthodox Church also
    celebrate Saint Valentine's Day on July 6 in honor of Roman presbyter Saint Valentine, and on July
    30 in honor of Hieromartyr Valentine, the Bishop of Interamna (modern Terni).[15]

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