Martyrs? Bacchanalia? Chaucer? Delving into the murky origins of Valentine’s Day
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Martyrs? Bacchanalia? Chaucer? Delving into the murky origins of Valentine’s Day

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Bearing cards, flowers, chocolates and poetry, lovers have always swooned on Valentine’s Day as cherubs circled overhead. A couple centuries later, a prominent family named Valentine may have promoted themselves by exaggerating an ancestor’s story after Christianity had become the prevailing religion, Lenski said. According to Kelly, author of “Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine,” the English writer was the first to make the connection to love — but he was talking about another St. Valentine whose feast day was May 3. “It was the middle of winter, so there weren’t any birds around, there weren’t any flowers around, and so they started making up things about Valentine,” he said. “Everybody’s always expecting Valentine’s Day to die out, and it never does,” she said.

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