Who here actually knows the true history and origins of Valentines day?

[BJP21]

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Valentines-Day

https://www.npr.org/2011/02/14/133693152/the-dark-origins-of-valentines-day

It comes as a shock how holidays still get twisted and misappropriated. I dont know about you all but Im going to prepare a feast in honor of St. Valentine.

[Chazmatazz269]

Nobody actually knows. As with many holidays, festivals and rituals, even before capitalism and consumerism corrupted it further, overlapping ideologies and belief systems turned it into an amalgamation of sorts.

[JustinTheGreat]

I couldn’t care less about older meanings of holidays tbh lol

[DizzyDesii]

I think some dude killed a bunch of people or something. Probably like in that movie Valentine

[purplepoppy]

According to Chaucer it's the day birds choose their mate.

[call_me_scar]

I'd guess it was a pegan holiday at one point but just evolved into what it is today