Gregory's writings illuminate the conflicts which both tormented and motivated him.

Some of Gregory's theological writings suggest that, like his friend Gregory of Nyssa, he may have supported some form of the doctrine of apocatastasis, the belief that God will bring all of creation into harmony with the Kingdom of Heaven.

Gregory's great nephew Nichobulos served as his literary executor, preserving and editing many of his writings.

It has been established that this confusion occurred due to the death of one son in infancy, leading to ambiguities in Gregory's own writings.

Modern studies have mainly focused on Gregory's eschatology rather than his more dogmatic writings, and he has gained a reputation as an unconventional thinker whose thought arguably prefigures postmodernism.

St Martin's tomb was a major draw in the 6th century, and Gregory's writings had the practical aspect of promoting this highly organized devotion.

Alfred lamented in the preface to his translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care that " learning had declined so thoroughly in England that there were very few men on this side of the Humber who could understand their divine services in English, or even translate a single letter from Latin into English: and I suppose that there were not many beyond the Humber either ".

Gregory's homilies were well received and attracted ever-growing crowds to Anastasia.

Gregory's successors were largely dominated by the Exarch of Ravenna, the Byzantine emperor's representative in Italy.

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.

Three frescoes in the Sala Regia Palace of the Vatican depicting the events were painted by Giorgio Vasari, and a commemorative medal was issued with Gregory's portrait and on the obverse a chastising angel, sword in hand and the legend (" Massacre of the Huguenots ").

In 1074 and 1075 he acted as intermediary, probably as Gregory's agent, between the Norman princes themselves, and even when the latter were at open war with the pope, they still maintained the best relations with Monte Cassino.

Yeats's play Cathleen Ní Houlihan and Lady Gregory's Spreading the News were featured on the opening night.

Gregory's first attempts in foreign policy were towards a reconciliation with the Normans of Robert Guiscard ; in the end the two parties did not meet.

In Gregory's lifetime the Christians of Cappadocia were devout, with the cults of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste and Saint George being particularly significant and a considerable monastic presence.

The Lancastrian forces mustered near Kingston upon Hull, and were said ( in Gregory's Chronicle, a near-contemporary account ) to number 15, 000.

One near-contemporary source ( Gregory's Chronicle ) claimed that 2, 500 Yorkists and 200 Lancastrians were killed, but other sources give wildly differing figures, from 2, 200 to only 700 Yorkist dead.

Gregory detested Chilperic, calling him " the Nero and Herod of his time " ( History of the Franks book VI. 46 ): he had provoked Gregory's wrath by wresting Tours from Austrasia, seizing ecclesiastical property, and appointing as bishops counts of the palace who were not clerics.

However, S. Fanning has assembled a number of examples of rex being used in a neutral, if not favorable, context, and argues that " the phrase Romanorum rex is not peculiar to Gregory of Tours or to Frankish sources ", and that Gregory's usage may indeed show " that they were, or were seen to be, claiming to be Roman emperors.

Pope Gregory the Great ( r. 590-604 ) organized papal notarii or scrinarii into a schola ; Gregory's registers show that they were responsible for recording correspondence, ordinations, privileges, donations, synodal acts, and matters related to the Patrimony of Saint Peter, as well as serving as papal advisors, diplomats, and envoys.

At Siena in July 1408 he and Sir John Cheyne, as English envoys, were received by Gregory XII with special honor, and Bishop Repingdon of Lincoln, ex-Wycliffite, was one of the new batch of cardinals created on 18 September 1408, most of Gregory's cardinals having deserted him.

The first series was partly filmed at St Gregory's Social Club in Farnworth, Lancashire, where the exterior, hallways and function suite were all used.

Part of the background to Philippa Gregory's historical novel " A Respectable Trade "-dealing mainly with the slave trade in late 18th century Bristol-is the start of construction at Clifton, then a far area outside the city limits as they were at the time.

Although it was Sheridan's idea, the design was Ned Gregory's who believed that English scoreboards were inadequate.

There were many instances of concerning player behaviour during the 1878 tour of England, and Gregory's men were considered to be unrefined and raucous.

During its history as a commercial cave, Gregory's Cave had walkways, which were made of wood in some places, and electric lights.

In June 2008 it was reported in The Times that Pilch's grave at St. Gregory's churchyard in Canterbury was among 200 other graves which were preventing the development of the churchyard into a Canterbury Christ Church University concert hall, as they could not be located for removal.

As Gregory's works circulated throughout the empire they influenced theological thought.

" As for Chrotilda, in Gregory's words she died on the journey home " by some ill chance ".

Thus 6th century Gallo-Romans of Gregory's class, surrounded by the ruins of Roman temples and public buildings, attributed the destruction they saw to the plundering raids of the Alemanni.

The original authorities for Gregory's life are Agathangelos, whose History of Tiridates was published by the Mekhitarists in 1835 ; Moses of Chorene, Historiae Armenicae ; and Symeon the Metaphrast.

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

In 1969 the Vatican, during the papacy of Paul VI, without commenting on Pope Gregory's reasoning, implicitly rejected it by separating Luke's sinful woman, Mary of Bethany, and Mary Magdala via the Roman Missal .< ref > Lester, Meera.

Annoyed by their actions, Gregory's response was to insist upon the primacy of St Peter's successor, the papacy being superior to the Emperor.

With Gregory's sponsorship, Konrad became a state-sponsored serial killer whose terrorism of the countryside was eventually stopped only by his assassination in 1233.

Gregory's Bull Parens scientiarum of 1231 resolved differences between the unruly university scholars of Paris and the local authorities, who had precipitated this crisis by high-handed actions.

This had been attempted by Gregory's predecessor, Urban V, without success.

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 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.

Then, on the capture of Rome, he abandoned the city to his troops, and the popular indignation evoked by his act brought about Gregory's exile.

* 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.

Gregory's avowed aim in writing this book was to ' fire others with that enthusiasm by which the saints deservedly climbed to heaven ', though this was not his sole purpose, and he most surely did not expect his entire audience to show promise of such piety as to witness the power of God flowing through them in the way that it did for the fathers.

Whereas Gregory distributed grain to the Roman populace as invasion loomed, Sabinian sold it for high prices ( though this may be a later interpolation by Gregory's biographers ).

In modern times, such as in Philippa Gregory's novel The Virgin's Lover, it has been suggested that Queen Elizabeth I of England ordered Mary's assassination by poisoning her, or, as portrayed in the 1998 film Elizabeth, that she was assassinated to protect Elizabeth's interests ( without any direct order by the Queen ).

John Gregory's reign as manager came to an end in October 2007 after a string of poor results left QPR at the bottom of the Championship and he was replaced by Luigi De Canio until the end of the 2007 – 08 season.

Another English Benedictine community, the Priory of St. Edmund, which had been formed in Paris in 1615 by Dom Gabriel Gifford, later Archbishop of Rheims and primate of France, was expelled from Paris during the Revolution, and eventually took over the vacant buildings of the community of St Gregory's in 1818.