History of Valentine's day

Valentine day is coming up and it got me thinking ...what is the history behind it.
It all goes back to a mystifying, third-century saint who endured a cruel fate.
St. Valentine of Te
rni was martyred in 269 C.E. (or somewhere around then). According to the legend, the Roman physician and priest was beaten, stoned, and beheaded for the crimes of wedding Christian couples ... and perhaps trying to convert Emperor Claudius II.
Thanks to the matrimonial angle of his legend, Valentine became the patron saint of love, young people, and marriages.
His February 14 feast day was established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 C.E. There's disparity amid historians about whether the holiday was intended to replace the pagan fertility festival Lupercalia.
Nevertheless, as time went on, more romantic associations came to be linked with the saint. One legend has Valentine falling in love with the blind daughter of a judge (or his jailer — again, it depends). He allegedly wrote her secret letters signed "from your Valentine" and then restored her sight from beyond the grave.
As the sect of chivalrous love spread across Europe in the Middle Ages, an even more romantic light was cast upon mid-February. As the Folklore Society notes, Geoffrey Chaucer mentions Valentine's Day and describes February as the time "when every fowl cometh there to chose his mate" (although the blog Got Medieval asserts that the poet didn't invent Valentine's Day and it was already likely linked with love by the time he referenced it).
So, we know how Valentine's Day came to be seen as the most romantic day of the year. However, the truth is, we don't know much about St. Valentine himself. There are eleven Valentines commemorated by the Catholic Church, and there were at least two other St. Valentines who lived around the time of St. Valentine of Terni. Because his origins are so vague, he was actually removed from the General Roman Calendar by the Roman Catholic Church in 1969 (but he's still technically considered a saint).
Let us use the day to be grateful for the love we have in our lives.I for one I am grateful for family and the amazing guy in my life.It is not about how much you spend but how much you mean it when you say this three word ''  I love you ''
Forget the flowers and the gift and instead celebrate love in  it's simplest form  as written in the Bible

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
Enjoy your valentine people