http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...-365-days-year

[madisgram]

Make no mistake about it - Valentine's Day is an important day of celebration for love.
it is a reminder of the other 364 days to do the same.

[(JD)]

Yes, it began as love for your neighbor. It does need to be 24/7 365! http://thesuburbanchristian.blogspot...eaning-of.html

History of Valentine's Day: St. Valentine (or Valentinus) was a priest and physician in third-century Rome. Valentine was known for doing good deeds, caring for the poor, healing the sick. He was arrested during a persecution ....

Valentine as a priest who refused an unattested law attributed to Roman Emperor Claudius II, allegedly ordering that young men remain single. The Emperor supposedly did this to grow his army, believing that married men did not make for good soldiers. The priest Valentine, however, secretly performed marriage ceremonies for young men.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day

... and the Roman emperor Claudius Gothicus handed him over to a magistrate. While in custody, Valentine healed the magistrate's blind, adopted daughter, and the entire family was converted..... Upon hearing this, the emperor had Valentine beheaded--on February 14th.

... Rather, the emphasis is on love of neighbor, agape service love, not romantic love. The romantic emphasis didn't come until the Middle Ages, and then of course it was heightened by 18th-century Romanticism and now exacerbated by modern Hollywood mythology and Western consumer culture.