But why exactly do we celebrate Valentine's Day and why does it fall on February 14? How did Valentine's Day begin? Valentine's Day is an old tradition thought to have originated from a Roman Festival known as Lupercalia, according to History.com. Chaucer, as in The Canterbury Tales writer, may have actually been behind Valentine's Day. “For this was sent on Seynt Valentyne’s day / Whan every foul cometh ther to choose his mate,” he wrote and maybe invented Valentine's Day as we now know it.

Source: Standard Digital February 14, 2017 06:46 UTC