Valentine’s Day’s connection with love was probably invented by Chaucer and other 14th-century poets
Valentine’s Day’s connection with love was probably invented by Chaucer and other 14th-century poets: As an undergraduate, on a tour of Europe, I happened to step into the church where Saint Valentine’s head was kept. The tour guide told us a (likely fictitious) story about Saint Valentine performing forbidden marriages for persecuted Christians under the …