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Valentine’s Day in New York!

Do we know the origins of Valentine’s Day?

The Feast of Saint Valentine, commonly known as Valentine’s Day, is celebrated on February 14 each year. In New York City, candy, flowers and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine.

St. Valentine’s Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. However, the first recorded association of Valentine’s Day with a special day for lovers is in Parlement of Foules (1382), written by Geoffrey Chaucer, known as the Father of English Literature and probably one of the greatest poet of the Middle Ages.

It was commonly believed in England and France that the 14 of February was the beginning of birds’ mating season, which added to the idea that Valentines’s Day should be a day for romance. The odlest known valentine still in existence today was a poem written in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt (a major English victory in the Hundred Years’ War).

Today, according to the Greeting Card Association, an estimated 1 billion Valentine’s Day cards are sent each year, making Valentine’s Day the second largest card-sending of the year.

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