Valentine's Day century. Popular modern sources claim links to unspecified Greco-Roman February holidays alleged to be devoted to fertility and love to St. Valentine's Day, but prior to Chaucer in the 14th century, there were no links between the saints named Valentinus and romantic love. In Ancient Rome, Lupercalia, observed February 13–15, was an archaic rite connected to fertility. Lupercalia was a festival local to the city of Rome. The more general Festival of Juno Februa, meaning "Juno the purifier" or "the chaste Juno", was celebrated on February 13–14. Pope Gelasius I (492–496) abolished Lupercalia. Some researchers have theorized that Gelasius I
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Middle School St Joseph's Roman Catholic Middle School St Joseph's Roman Catholic Middle School is one of the two middle schools in Hexham, Northumberland, England, the other being Hexham Middle School. It is voluntary aided. The school is closely associated with St Mary's First School, a primary school which is also a Roman Catholic school, and with the local Catholic church. The school, like the high school which its children progress to at the age of 13, is a specialist arts college and is attended by approximately 330 pupils. The head teacher is Alan Hodgson, and the chair of governors is Mary