What is the origin of celebrating Saint Valentine’s day?

 Saint Valentine, the feast of love, the date on which chocolates and flowers walk through the streets wearing their red bows … but do we really know the true origin of Valentine?

They come from a very old holiday that dates back to Roman times, a celebration related to spirit purifying rituals, which was celebrated on February 15. It was a sexual holiday, known as the lupercals, where naked young people (the lupercos) were thrown into the street, in conclusion, a pagan festival related to fertility.

On this day, groups of young people could be seen in the streets making sacrifices, with goats and other animals performing a ritual, from which they obtained the skins and made whips of this same material and ran through the city whipping all the people who they encountered, this far from anger,  was a blessing, especially to women, as receiving a whiplash was understood as a blessing for their fertility.