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a b Vivian Krug Hotchkiss, Emotions Greeting Cards, VH Productions, [email protected]. "Esther Howland". Emotionscards.com. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011 . Retrieved August 6, 2011. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) Readers have uncritically assumed that Chaucer was referring to February 14 as Valentine's Day. Henry Ansgar Kelly has observed that Chaucer might have had in mind the feast day of St. Valentine of Genoa, an early bishop of Genoa who died around AD 307; it was probably celebrated on 3 May. [54] [57] [58] A treaty providing for Richard II and Anne's marriage, the subject of the poem, was signed on May 2, 1381. [59]

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However, in 2017 and 2018, after a fatwa was widely circulated, the religious police did not prevent Muslims from celebrating the day. [168] In 2018, Sheikh Ahmed Qasim Al-Ghamdi, a Saudi cleric and former president of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, said that Valentine's Day is not haram and is compatible with Islamic values. [169] [170] Singapore archive.ittefaq.com.bd (in Bengali). Archived from the original on August 29, 2021 . Retrieved February 14, 2020. Banknote flowers a popular Valentine's gift in Sibu". The Borneo Post. February 14, 2016. Archived from the original on February 10, 2017 . Retrieved February 10, 2017.

In Japan, the romantic "date night" associated with Valentine's Day is celebrated on Christmas Eve. [144] Lebanon Valentine's Day themed bouquet of cupcakes a b Ansgar, 1986, p. 59. It originated in the 1797 edition of Kemmish's Annual, according to Frank Staff, The Valentine and Its Origins (London, 1969), p. 122. Ansgar was unable to corroborate this. a b c d Chris Yeager (February 13, 2009). "Valentine's Day in Japan". Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia (JASGP). Archived from the original on July 25, 2011. {{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help) Saint Valentine's Day was introduced to Poland together with the cult of Saint Valentine via Bavaria and Tyrol. [178] However, it rose in popularity in the 1990s. [178] The only (and the biggest) public celebration in Poland is held annually from 2002 in Chełmno [178] under the name „Walentynki Chełmińskie” (Chełmno Valentine's). Because Chełmno's parish church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary has been holding the relic of St. Valentine since the Middle Ages, local cult of the saint has been combined with the Anglo-Saxon tradition. [178] PortugalThree other authors who made poems about birds mating on St. Valentine's Day around the same years: Otton de Grandson from Savoy, John Gower from England, and a knight called Pardo from Valencia. Chaucer most probably predated all of them; but due to the difficulty of dating medieval works, it is not possible to ascertain which of the four may have influenced the others. [61] Court of love Ron Huza (February 14, 2007). "Lost in translation: The cultural divide over Valentine's Day". The Gazette. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Coptic Orthodox Church – From Where Valentine's Day Comes From". Archived from the original on May 25, 2010. a b Kliner, Pavla (February 15, 2008). "Sv. Valentin, prvi spomladin"[St Valentin, the First Spring Saint]. Gorenjski glas (in Slovenian). Archived from the original on January 18, 2013.