Valentine's Day, also known as St Valentine's Day or the Feast of St Valentine, is a celebration observed on February 14 each year.

It is celebrated in many countries around the world, although it is not a public holiday in most of them.

Held on a Sunday this year, the romantic calendar event will see many couples and loved ones exchange cards, flowers, chocolates and gifts.

This year, Valentine's Day will fall on a Sunday, meaning you have the whole weekend to spend with your loved one.

But why do we celebrate Valentine’s Day?

It began as a Christian celebration due to a saint named Valentinus. There are various stories about the saint; one says that he was a priest in Rome in around 270 AD during a time when the church was facing a lot of oppression.

St Valentine’s ministry wanted to help the Christians escape this oppression and provide them with sacraments such as marriage.

At the time, Emperor Claudius II ruled that married men didn't make good soldiers and forbid them from having wives and families.

St Valentine ignored Claudius and continued to marry young couples in secret. When Emperor Claudius discovered what he had been doing, St Valentine was put in jail and sentenced to death.

While in jail, he fell in love with the jailer’s daughter and on February 14 when he was taken to be killed, he wrote to her and signed it "from your Valentine".

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