Didn't it line up with an existing pagan courtship holiday?
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When people started doing Valentine's Day as a romance holiday in the Middle Ages they *called* it a revival of the Lupercalia festival from ancient Rome but the evidence is they were just making that up, Lupercalia was a "spring cleaning" festival to prepare for the new year
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