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 Roman Catholic Church (Eugene, Oregon) St. Mary Roman Catholic Church (Eugene, Oregon) The St. Mary Roman Catholic Church (full name: St. Mary, Our Lady of the Presentation, Catholic Church) in Eugene, Oregon, United States, was established in 1887. It is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon. Although Catholic missionaries first came to the upper Willamette Valley in the 1850s, St. Mary Parish was officially established in 1887, when Fr. Francis Beck became the first resident pastor. The first regularly scheduled Masses were said in a church bought from the Methodists and moved to 11th & Willamette. The Church's official title was