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
Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Tuczno) Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Tuczno) The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Catholic parish church in Tuczno, Poland. It is in Tuczno, in the Wałcz County, in West Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the Deanery Miroslawiec in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg. It is in the territorial prelate of Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Schneidemühl.<ref name="http://memim.com/roman-catholic-territorial-prelature-of-schneidemuhl.html">Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Schneidemühl: Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Schneidemühl, accessdate: February 26, 2017</ref><ref name="https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/249654?availability=Family%20History%20Library">FamilySearch Catalog: Seelenbuch der Stadt Tütz und der umliegenden Dörfer vom Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts bis zum Jahre