Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine
https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=9004078495
Henry Ansgar Kelly - 1986 - Social Science
The only likely candidate is St. Valentine of Genoa, who died on May 3 and whose feastday was celebrated in Genoa on May 2. ... that he was able to find some association between this saint's day and the traditional May festivities of Italy.Valentine's Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine's_Day
Valentine's
Day, also known as Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint
Valentine, is a celebration observed on February 14 each year. It is
celebrated in many countries around the world, although it is not a
public holiday in most of them. St. Valentine's Day began as a
liturgical celebration of one or more early ..... that Chaucer might
have had in mind the feast day of St. Valentine of Genoa, ...
