Valentine’s Day’s Connection With Love Was Probably Invented By Chaucer And Other 14th-Century Poets
AncientPages.com – 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 ficтιтious) story about Saint Valentine performing forbidden marriages for persecuted Christians under the Roman emperor Claudius Gothicus (possibly 269-270 AD). Valentine was then imprisoned and beheaded in […]