32 Facts About Valentine's Day

Saint Valentine's Day is not a public holiday in any country, although it is an official feast day in the Anglican Communion and the Lutheran Church.

Valentine's Day is buried on the Via Flaminia, but in a different location from Valentine of Rome.

Valentine's Day's relics are at the Basilica of Saint Valentine in Terni .

Valentine's Day was martyred in Africa with a number of companions, but nothing more is known about him.

Valentine's Day has only recently been celebrated as the day of love.

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Valentine's Day is mentioned ruefully by Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet :.

The Laura Seddon Greeting Card Collection at Manchester Metropolitan University gathers 450 Valentine's Day cards dating from early nineteenth century Britain, printed by the major publishers of the day.

The mid-19th century Valentine's Day trade was a harbinger of further commercialized holidays in the U S to follow.

Millions of people use, every year, digital means of creating and sending Valentine's Day greeting messages such as e-cards, love coupons or printable greeting cards.

Valentine's Day is considered by some to be a Hallmark holiday due to its commercialization.

Valentine's Day is celebrated in many East Asian countries with Singaporeans, Chinese and South Koreans spending the most money on Valentine's gifts.

In most Latin American countries, for example, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, Saint Valentine's Day is known as Dia de los Enamorados or as Dia del Amor y la Amistad .

Valentine's Day is a major source of economic activity, with total expenditures in 2017 topping $18.

Some new generation budding poets like Ramin Mazhar, Mahtab Sahel are expressing themselves through poetry using Valentine's Day expressing concerns on any likelihood of erosion of freedoms.

Valentine's Day was first celebrated in Bangladesh by Shafik Rehman, a journalist and editor of Jaijaidin in 1993.

Valentine's Day was acquainted with Western culture by studying in London.

Valentine's Day highlighted Valentine's Day to the Bangladeshi people through Jaijaidin newspaper.

The "Chinese Valentine's Day" is the Qixi Festival, celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar.

Valentine's Day celebrations did not catch on in India until around 1992.

Valentine's Day has been strongly criticized from a postcolonial perspective by intellectuals from the Indian left.

Valentine's Day said "We are not against love, but we criticize vulgar exhibition of love at public places".

Since the mid-2000s, Valentine's Day has become increasingly popular in Iran, especially among young people.

Since 2011, authorities have attempted to discourage celebrations and impose restrictions on the sale and production of Valentine's Day-related goods, although the holiday remains popular as of 2018.

In Sidon, Valentine's Day is celebrated with the whole family – it is more about family love than a couple's love.

Concept of Valentine's Day was introduced into Pakistan during the late 1990s with special TV and radio programs.

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In Saudi Arabia, in 2002 and 2008, religious police banned the sale of all Valentine's Day items, telling shop workers to remove any red items, because the day is considered a Christian holiday.

In 2018, Sheikh Ahmed Qasim Al-Ghamdi, a Saudi cleric and former president of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, said that Valentine's Day is not haram and is compatible with Islamic values.

In Estonia, Valentine's Day was originally called valentinipaev and later sobrapaev as a calque of the Finnish term.

In France, a traditionally Catholic country, Valentine's Day is known simply as "Saint Valentin", and is celebrated in much the same way as other western countries.

The relics of Saint Valentin de Terni, the patron of the St Valentine's Day, are in the Catholic church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste and Saint-Jean-l'Evangeliste located in the southern France town of Roquemaure, Gard.

Saint Valentine's Day was introduced to Poland together with the cult of Saint Valentine via Bavaria and Tyrol.

Celebration of Valentine's Day has been banned in Indonesia, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia due to beliefs the holiday conflicts with Islamic culture.