Valentine’s Day is mainly known for giving chocolates, candy, gifts, and flowers to your loved ones. But did you know Valentine’s day is also called Saint Valentine’s Day

Saint valentines day 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.

At the end of the 5th century, Pope Gelasius declared February 14 St. Valentine’s Day. Since then, February 14th has been a day about love than it being generally more religious. Saint Valentine was a 3rd-century Roman saint, commemorated in Western Christianity on February 14 and in Eastern Orthodoxy on July 6. Saints’ Day has been associated with a tradition of courtly love since the High Middle Ages. He is also a patron saint of Terni, epilepsy, and beekeepers. Saint Valentine was a clergyman, either a priest or a bishop, in the Roman Empire who ministered to persecuted Christians. He was martyred and was buried at a Christian cemetery on the Via Flaminia on February 14, which has been observed as the Feast of Saint Valentine since at least the eighth century.

Chocolate is one of the most popular items you can get for valentines day but did you know by the 1900s, chocolate was already a very demanded gift for loved ones? In 1861, Cadbury Brothers released the first heart-shaped box of chocolates and marketed it for Valentine’s Day. This sparked the commercialization of the holiday and its association with chocolate Around 1875. The Whitman’s Sampler box was released in 1912 and became the best-selling box of chocolates in the US.