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 Patrick's Roman Catholic Church Cemetery with plaques dating from 1982. The cemetery contains approximately 500 burials and 400 monuments. It continues to have Catholic and Methodist sections. St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church Cemetery was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church Cemetery St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery at Queen Street, Singleton, Singleton Council, New South Wales, Australia. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. The cemetery, which adjoins St Patrick's Catholic Church, was first established in 1842. The first recorded burial