Please be a troll... a terrible troll at that

Since he was caught marryingChristian couples and aiding any Christians who were being persecuted under Emperor Claudius in Rome[when helping them was considered a crime], Valentinus was arrested and imprisoned. .. He was beaten with clubs and stoned; when that didn't do it, he was beheaded outside the Flaminian Gate [circa 269]. http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=159

Legenda Aurea still providing no connections whatsoever with sentimental love, appropriate lore has been embroidered in modern times to portray Valentine as a priest who refused an unattested law attributed to Roman Emperor Claudius II, allegedly ordering that young men remain single. The Emperor supposedly did this to grow his army, believing that married men did not make for good soldiers. The priest Valentine, however, secretly performed marriage ceremonies for young men. When Claudius found out about this, he had Valentine arrested and thrown in jail. In an embellishment to The Golden Legend provided by American Greetings, Inc. to History.com and widely repeated, on the evening before Valentine was to be executed, he wrote the first "valentine" himself, addressed to a young girl variously identified as his beloved,[17] as the jailer's daughter whom he had befriended and healed,[18] or both. It was a note that read "From your Valentine."[17] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_day#Saint_Valentine

I agree. Be impressed that he is intelligent, resourceful enough to find or make the card, and cared enough about you to find a compromise for a holiday you believe in and he obviously doesn't.

^this

Agreed. OP deserves it for being shallow enough to become so invested in a totally consumer-driven iteration of a holiday. OP's boyfriend rocks for creativity, humor, and compromise!