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. Mary of the Isle Church The organ of the Church that has over 100 years was restored in 2006 by Peter Jones. St. Mary of the Isle Church The St. Mary of the Isle Church is the name given to a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located on Hill Street in the city of Douglas, the capital of the Isle of Man, a dependency of the British Crown. The church was completed in 1859, it follows the Roman or Latin rite and is part of the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Liverpool ("Archidioecesis Liverpolitanus") which also includes the northwest of England