The things you find out when digging just a little bit! As we are only a few days away from Valentine's Day, I checked with the good old Wikipedia to find out where this day comes from. Turns out that it probably relates to two persons a few centuries AD who, independent from each other, died as martyrs for some (good) cause, hence the day is actually called Saint Valentine's Day.
Love - not so much at that point, and it took about another One Thousand years until the famous "Father of English literature," Geoffrey Chaucer (best known for "The Canterbury Tales"), connected love and Valentine's Day in a poem in "Parlement of Foules." It goes like"
For this was on seynt Volantynys day
Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese his make.
["For this was Saint Valentine's Day, when every bird cometh there to choose his mate."]
So, with that said, Happy Saint Valentine's Day!
And here is a link to the source: Valentine's Day
