Legends have it that Valentine’s Day is a celebration of the sacrificial kind of love St. Valentine (a Roman priest, Italian bishop, and/or a martyr living in a Roman province in Africa) demonstrated when he laid down his life for his friends. This is why Valentine’s Day is all about love, and why this holiday has become to be all about giving the best valentine gift, as well as why that best valentine gift is considered to be the gift of ourselves, which we give to the ones we love the most.

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