St Patrick’s Day is on 17th March as this is the date of St Patrick’s death in 461AD.

Seasonal foods for March

Pope Gelasius I held the first feast of St. Valentine’s in 496 AD, who included Valentine among those “… whose names are justly reverenced among men, but whose acts are known only to God.”  This quote implies that even at this early stage the pope did not know the history of St Valentine.
It is generally […]