User blog comment:Okaminozeramou/Jubo Ill/@comment-6189154-20130212133008/@comment-957629-20130212135222

Everything gets modernized, it happens but its no less a valid holiday than any of the others since it is a Feast Day to many, celebrating the life of a Saint!!

It was also well before 1801 that it had become and been seen as a holiday of expression between lovers!!

Only, from an Historian, never look at just one book of a secondary account before making a judgement on something!! Its mentioned even in Shakespeare if you must have a primary account of the Feast existing centuries before that year!!