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
Extraordinary form of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church of the Latin rite. The Roman Missal promulgated by Saint Pius V and revised by Saint John XXIII is nonetheless to be considered an extraordinary expression of the same "lex orandi" of the Church and duly honoured for its venerable and ancient usage. These two expressions of the Church's "lex orandi" will in no way lead to a division in the Church's "lex credendi" (rule of faith); for they are two usages of the one Roman rite.<br> It is therefore permitted to celebrate the Sacrifice of the Mass following the typical edition of the Roman Missal,