There are many stories about the origin of the holiday.

According to one version, during the Roman Empire, the Lupercalia festival was celebrated in honor of the harvest god Lupercalia.

The festival was held in February and, according to tradition, village girls wrote their names on pieces of paper and then hid them in a special box. And the young people then took out notes and paired up with the girls whose names they got. Often it ended with a wedding.

According to another version, the Roman Emperor Claudius II needed a strong army consisting of unmarried men. He thought they would protect him better. But married soldiers refused to leave their families for the sake of the war for the emperor, and he forbade young people to marry.

A Roman priest named Valentin empathized with couples and began to marry them secretly. When everything was revealed, the emperor ordered Valentine to be sent to prison and executed. While Valentine was in prison, he fell in love with the jailer's daughter, who took care of him. On the night before the execution on February 14, Valentin wrote her a farewell note and signed himself “Your Valentine”.