St Valentine has nothing to do with love or romance and the day was just made up
Poets have created the story that inspired Valentine's Day
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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 Roman emperor Claudius Gothicus (possibly 269-270 AD). Valentine was…
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