Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Christian feast day recognizing one or two early Christian killers named Saint Valentine( February 14) when suckers express their affection with felicitations and gifts. Given their parallels, it has been suggested that the vacation has origins in the Roman jubilee of Lupercalia, held inmid-February. The jubilee, which celebrated the coming of spring, included fertility solemnities and the pairing off of women with men by lottery. At the end of the 5th century, Pope Gelasius I prohibit the festivity of Lupercalia and is occasionally attributed with replacing it with St. Valentine's Day, but the true origin of the vacation is vague at stylish. Valentine's Day didn't come to be celebrated as a day of love until about the 14th century. Although there were several Christian killers named Valentine, the day may have taken its name from a clerk who was martyred about 270 CE by the emperor Claudius II Gothicus.