What do we celebrate holdiays that are obiviously on the wrong day?

I think it goes back to when they changed over to another calendar, Aurone, but what it all boils down to is that the ones in power are going to change anything they wish to suit themselves.

The Christmas thing is a matter of the church aligning the holiday with pagan ones of the same time, as another poster said. There are a lot of Christian holidays that line up with pagan ones in some way or other, to tap into older traditions and help people convert. Not just Christmas, but also Easter, All Saint's, and others. I didn't know about Valentine's Day being misplaced, but if you think about it, once such a mistake or change is made, it's hard to unmake it. Even if you officially declared that Valentine's Day was on another day, people in general wouldn't want to change it because it's a part of their lives as it is now. Also, since a lot of people who celebrate Valentine's just see it as a lover's holiday without really associating it with St. Valentine anymore anyway, most people really don't care about whether they celebrate it at the right time.

I know why Christmas is in December.To woo more people to Christianity, they started celebrating Christmas in December because there was a pagan winter festival already being celebrated so they borrowed it.I didn't know ST Valentine's Day was on the wrong date.Wow.

Commercialization. Have you noticed that christmas stuff is getting put on the shelves of stores earlier and earlier every year. I swear this year our stores skipped halloween all together and put out christmas stuff right after the back to school rush and went i went shopping the day after christmas there were already half a dozen shelves of Valentines day things out. It is all about merchandising.