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 Roman Catholic Church (Apple Creek, Missouri) statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Grace, a small altar for Masses, and amphitheater. A small waterfall flows out of the cave, and its water flows before the altar, under the stone bridge, and back into the cave. The parish is home to 250 families. An annual church picnic is held on the Labor Day weekend. St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church (Apple Creek, Missouri) St. Joseph Church is a Roman Catholic church in Apple Creek, Missouri. Catholic German immigrants from the region of Baden settled in Perry County, Missouri in the 1820s. W. Joseph Schnurbusch was