BACKGROUND OF VALENTINE'S DAY
The origin of Valentine's Day is in the Roman festival of Lupercalia, which celebrated the coming of spring.
A priest martyred about 270 CE by the emperor Claudius II Gothicus
He exchanged letters with the jailer's daughter, his beloved one, while signing them "from your Valentine".
A bishop, St. Valentine of Terni
He secretly married couples to exempt husbands from military service.