基本信息
st valentine's day is celebrated on february 14 of each year, the reason why it is celebrated on this day is because this was the day that the patron saint of lovers "st valentine" was supposedly executed on. on this day lovers all around the world mark this occasion as a day for sending poems, cards, flowers or candy, etc. they might also be a social gathering or ball to mark the occasion. many valentine's day customs involved ways that single women could learn who their future husbands would be. englishwomen of the 1700's wrote men's names on scraps of paper, rolled each in a little piece of clay, and dropped them all into water. the first paper that rose to the surface supposedly had the name of a woman's true love. also in the 1700's, unmarried women pinned five bay leaves to their pillows on the eve of valentine's day. they pinned one leaf to the center of the pillow and one to each corner. if the charm worked, they saw their future husbands in their
