valentine's day vs christianity

Valentine's Day

The roots of the cutting edge Valentine's Day are generally legend. Legend has it St. Valentine was a minister who passed on guarding marriage under a Roman head contradicted to the training. Legend has it the date was set to parallel the start of fowl mating season. The clearest association between St. Valentine and the festival of sentimental love surfaces in the Medieval work of Geoffrey Chaucer. In his Pariliament of Foules, Chaucer drafts his own legend: "For this was sent on Seynt Valentyne's day/When each foul cometh ther to pick his mate."