between Christians and pagans and a legend says that he made peace between a couple who was arguing donating a rose from his garden.
After his imprisonment Valentine sent some heart-shaped cardboard and the entrance keys of his home to let the kids and young couple to continue playing in his garden.
With the rise of Christianity, like all the pagan rituals, Lupercalia was considered “un-Christian” and during 496 A.D. Pope Gelasius I declared February 14 St. Valentine’s Day, to end definitely the ancient rite and to honour the martyrdom held in that same day.
Only in more recent time Saint Valentine, became the festivity we all know about and it’s thought to be originated around 1370, thanks to Geoffrey Chaucer, author “The Canterbury Tales”.
In honor of the of the wedding between Richard II and Anne of Bohemia, wrote a poem of 700 lines called “Parliament of Fowls”, marking the 14th February the day of romantic love.
It describes a group of birds that gather together in the early spring to choose their mates for the year.