Gregory's parents divorced when he was quite young, and his grandmother, Etta Mae Duncan, subsequently moved in with the family at their home on the South Side.

The third letter is extant, but no trace of an answer appears in St. Gregory's correspondence, owing probably to the fact that the pope died in 604, about the time it reached Rome.

His Decem Libri Historiarum is a primary source for the reigns of the sons of Clotaire II and their descendants until Gregory's own death in 594.

The next major source, far less organised than Gregory's work, is the Chronicle of Fredegar, begun by Fredegar but continued by unknown authors.

The only other major contemporary source is the Liber Historiae Francorum, an anonymous adaptation of Gregory's work apparently ignorant of Fredegar's chronicle: its author ( s ) ends with a reference to Theuderic IV's sixth year, which would be 727.

It is claimed in popular books and websites that Gregory's condemnation of heretics worshipping Satan in the form of a black cat in his bull Vox in Rama led to a massacre of cats across Europe.

It is also claimed that this supposed " cat massacre " worsened the Black Death a century after Gregory's time, because the plague was spread by rats who were unchecked in Europe due to the decline of cat numbers.

The first mention of a series approximating Bode's Law is found in David Gregory's The Elements of Astronomy, published in 1715.

Voyeurism is a common plot device in both serious ( e. g. Rear Window, Klute, Blue Velvet, Disturbia ) and humorous ( e. g. Porky's, Animal House, Semi-Pro, Gregory's Girl, American Pie ) films.

* The Priory of St. Gregory's is founded at Douai, Flanders, at this time in the Spanish Netherlands, by its first prior, Saint John Roberts, and other exiles, thus becoming the first English Benedictine house to renew conventual life after the Reformation.

Kristiana Gregory's book The Great Railroad Race ( part of the " Dear America " series ) is written as a diary by Libby West, who chronicles the end of the building of the railroad and the excitement which engulfed the country at the time.

Gregory's philosophical writings were influenced by Origen, and he is generally considered to have believed in universal salvation.

This is controversial, however, and other commentators suggest that Theosebia the Deaconess was one of Gregory's sisters.

After a stay of several months, a substitute was found-possibly Gregory's brother Peter, who is known to have been bishop of Sebaste from 381, and Gregory returned home to Nyssa to write books I and II of Against Eunomius.

This is often due to the lack of systematic structure and the presence of terminological inconsistencies in Gregory's work.

An important consequence of Gregory's belief in the infinity of God is his belief that God, as limitless, is essentially incomprehensible to the limited minds of created beings.

Gregory's theology was thus apophatic: he proposed that God should be defined in terms of what we know He is not rather than what we might speculate Him to be.

Gregory's anthropology is founded on the ontological distinction between the created and uncreated.

* In Philippa Gregory's 2009 novel The White Queen, the young Duke of York is sent into hiding in Tournai, Belgium by his mother, Elizabeth Woodville, while a changeling is sent to the Tower.

Anne is also the main character in Philippa Gregory's latest novel " The Kingmaker's Daughter ".

Gregory's education was the standard Latin one of Late Antiquity, focusing on Vergil's Aeneid and Martianus Capella's Liber de Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae, but also other key texts such as Orosius ' Chronicles, which his Historia is a continuation of, and Sallust, all of which works he refers to in his own.

It is the life of St Nicetius of Trier, though, which dominates this book ; his great authority and sense of episcopal responsibility which is the focus of Gregory's account as his figure, predestined to be great, bestrides the lives of the others.

At Alba Augusta ( Alba-la-Romaine ) the devastation was so complete, that the Christian bishop retired to Viviers, but in Gregory's account at Mende in Lozère, also deep in the heart of Gaul, bishop Privatus was forced to sacrifice to idols in the very cave where he was later venerated.

Coinciding with Gregory's arrival, XTC scored their first charting single in the UK with " Life Begins at the Hop ", which was also the first XTC single penned by Colin Moulding.

The replacement of Andrews ' keyboard playing with Gregory's 1960s-influenced guitar style steered the band on a path towards a more traditional rock sound ; Gregory also contributed occasional keyboards ( and later, string arrangements ).

Gregory's hagiographies are also an invaluable source of anecdotes and stories which enrich our understanding of life and belief in Merovingian Gaul, whilst it is fascinating to study works such as these which must have excited their audience to such an extent.

He also had work done on the Church of St Gregory's on the Caelian.

She also appears in two of Philippa Gregory's Tudor court novels, The Other Boleyn Girl and The Boleyn Inheritance.

The date of 506 also follows Gregory's chronology which places the death of Childeric around the same time as that of St. Pertpetuus, who died in 491.

She is also the main protagonist in Philippa Gregory's 2011 novel The Lady of the Rivers.

Having only his own representations to guide them, and there being no question that Gregory's translation was uncanonical, while the election of Nectarius was open to grave censure as that of an unbaptized layman, Maximus also exhibiting letters from Peter the late venerable patriarch, to confirm his asserted communion with the church of Alexandria, the Italian bishops pronounced in favour of Maximus and refused to recognize either Gregory or Nectarius.

Gregory's spell at Villa is also notable as he became the last manager to field an all English starting 11 in the Premiership, until Steve McClaren's Middlesbrough did the same against Fulham on 7 May 2006.

Another work of Gregory's, On the Endowment of Man, was also written at Peter's suggestion and sent to the latter with an appropriate preface as an Easter gift in 397.

St Gregory's has a painting of St George slaying the dragon and also contains a stone Viking-era grave marker, notable for a rare depiction of the legend of Wayland Smith.

It might have been expected that Gregory's name would appear among those who took part in the First Council of Antioch against Paul of Samosata ; probably he took part also in the second council held there against the same heresiarch, for the letter of that council is signed by a bishop named Theodore, which had been originally Gregory's name.

For an interesting paper published by The Textbook Colloquium in 1998, comparing the content of The British Encyclopaedia with Gregory's Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, published in 1808, but also edited by Jeremiah Joyce, see.

He is also a minor character in Philippa Gregory's book The Other Queen, with an account given of the time he spent as the Queen of Scots ' gaoler.

St Thomas CE Primary School, St Gregory's Catholic Primary School and Lydiate Primary School ( formerly Lambshear Lane Primary School ) also lie within the village.

Leo also confirmed that the limitations placed on the Armenian Catholic patriarch by Pius IX's 1867 letter Reversurus would not apply to the Melkite Church ; further, Leo formally recognized an expansion of Patriarch Gregory's jurisdiction to include all Melkites throughout the Ottoman Empire.

This Church, which was eventually finished in 1720, was the follower of a previous one, which still stands today on the edge of the town, which was also dedicated to Saint Catherine, but is colloquially known as Saint Gregory's, probably due to the annual procession dedicated to that saint, which in Medieval Times used to start from as far as Mdina.

Doug attended St. Gregory's High School in Queens, where he befriended Spence Olchin ; he also went to school with his cousin Danny.

Saint Gregory's Commentary on Job is sometimes also referred to by the title Magna Moralia.