What is the origin of Valentine's Day and why is it celebrated on Feb. 14?

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What is the origin of Valentine's Day and why is it celebrated on Feb. 14?
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This is everything we know about the birth of Valentine's Day.

Do you have plans with friends? Are you going to surprise your significant other with a romantic date?

Regardless, the magazine indicates that its history dates back centuries in which various historians place the festivities in ancient Rome. In addition, National Geographic says there is another theory that exists in which male participants of the Lupercalia would choose a woman’s name from a box to have a temporary sexual union, a union that was discarded if it became enduring. This way, couples could be selected during the Roman festival called Juno Februata.

Centuries later it's said that he was elevated to the altars which drove Pope Gelasio I in the year 494 to declare the 14th of February, on the day of his torture, the official day of Saint Valentine.

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