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To establish his authority, Gregory explains that his information came from what he considered the best sources: a handful of Benedict s disciples who lived with the saint and witnessed his various miracles.
In Gregory s day, history was not recognized as an independent field of study ; it was a branch of grammar or rhetoric, and historia ( defined as ‘ story ’) summed up the approach of the learned when they wrote what was, at that time, considered ‘ history .’ Gregory s Dialogues Book Two, then, an authentic medieval hagiography cast as a conversation between the Pope and his deacon Peter, is designed to teach spiritual lessons.
Nevertheless, Gregory VII s dramatization of the issue produced a significant improvement in the character of men raised to the episcopacy.
Some of Pope Gregory the Great s letters survive that relate to the mission of St. Augustine to Kent in 597 ; these letters provide information about the mission specifically, but also can be used to draw conclusions about the state of Kent and its relationships with its neighbours.
The only direct written reference to Eormenric is in Kentish genealogies, but Gregory of Tours does mention that Æthelberht s father was the king of Kent, though Gregory gives no date.
According to Gregory of Tours, Charibert was king when he married Ingoberg, Bertha s mother, which places that marriage no earlier than 561.
This is possible, but seems unlikely, especially as Charibert seems to have had a preference for younger women, again, according to Gregory s account.
On the other hand, Gregory refers to Æthelberht at the time of his marriage to Bertha, simply as " a man of Kent ", and in the 589 passage concerning Ingoberg s death, which was written in about 590 or 591, he refers to Æthelberht as " the son of the king of Kent ".
If this does not simply reflect Gregory s ignorance of Kentish affairs, which seems unlikely given the close ties between Kent and the Franks, then some assert that Æthelberht s reign cannot have begun before 589.
The letter concerned Augustine s mission to Kent in 597, and in it Gregory says that he believes " that you wish your subjects in every respect to be converted to that faith in which you, their kings and lords, stand ".
* A. Terian, Patriotism And Piety In Armenian Christianity: The Early Panegyrics On Saint Gregory, St Vladimir s Seminary Press, 2005
The Australians elected Dave Gregory from New South Wales as Australia s first ever captain and on winning the toss he decided to bat.
Sydney Cricket Ground curator, Ned Gregory, playing in his one and only Test for Australia, scored Test cricket s first duck.
During the pontificate of Pope Constantine Gregory was made a papal secretary, and accompanied him to Constantinople in 711 to deal with the issues raised by Rome s rejection of the canons of the Quinisext Council.
The actual negotiations on the contentious articles were handled by Gregory, with the result that the emperor Justinian II agreed that the Papacy could disregard whichever of the council s decisions it wished to.
After Constantine s death on 9 April 715, Gregory was elected pope, and was consecrated as Bishop of Rome on 19 May 715.
After hearing of the work that had been done so far, in 722 Gregory summoned Boniface back to Rome to answer rumours concerning Boniface s doctrinal purity.
Interestingly, at this face to face meeting, Boniface complained that he found Gregory s Latin difficult to understand, a clear indication that Vulgar Latin had already started to evolve into the Romance languages.

Gregory and s
Andrés Pérez, " Nicaragua: History, social conflict, and missions for peace ", in Gregory Wirick and Robert Miller ( ed. s ) Canada and Missions for Peace: Lessons from Nicaragua, Cambodia and Somalia.

Gregory and account
There had been reading at table, especially from two books, Pope Gregory The Great's account of St. Scholastica in his Dialogues and my own The World Of Washington Irving.
According to Gregory of Tours ' account, Alaric was intimidated by Clovis into surrendering Syagrius to Clovis ; Gregory then adds that " the Goths are a timorous race.
Apart from a short poem attributed to Mark of Monte Cassino, the only ancient account of Benedict is found in the second volume of Pope Gregory I's four-book Dialogues, thought to have been written in 593.
Already in 1059 he had persuaded Robert Guiscard and Richard of Capua to become vassals of St. Peter for their newly-conquered territories: now Gregory VII immediately after his election sent for him to give an account of the state of Norman Italy and entrusted him with the negotiation of an interview with Robert Guiscard on 2 August 1073, at Benevento.
William Daly, in order more directly to assess Clovis ' allegedly barbaric and pagan origins, was obliged to ignore the bishop Saint Gregory of Tours and base his account on the scant earlier sources, a sixth-century " vita " of Saint Genevieve and letters to or concerning Clovis from bishops and Theodoric.
Hermann ( 1906 ) identifies as such * ansulaikom the victory songs of the Batavi after defeating Quintus Petillius Cerialis in the Batavian rebellion of 69 AD ( according to Tacitus ' account ), and also the " nefarious song " accompanied by " running in a circle " around the head of a decapitated goat sacrificed to ( he presumes ) Wodan, sung by the Lombards at their victory celebration in 579 according to the report of Pope Gregory the Great ( Dialogues ch.
Edmund's name had been proposed as a compromise by Gregory, perhaps on account of his work for the crusade.
Gregory of Tours, a Gallo-Roman, includes the nearest account in time of the fall of the Thuringian Empire.
According to Jordanes, the Alan king Sangiban, whose foederati realm included Aurelianum, had promised to open the city gates ; this siege is confirmed by the account of the Vita S. Anianus and in the later account of Gregory of Tours, although Sangiban's name does not appear in their accounts.
Gregory has also argued that the moon landing was faked and the commonly accepted account of the 9 / 11 attacks is incorrect, among other conspiracy theories.
In his account of this visit, Magnus Felix Ennodius, who accompanied Epiphanius on this journey, describes Godegisel as germanus regis the " king's brother " and not king -- again contradicting Gregory of Tour's later account.
) treats of theology or mythology, and winds up with an account of the Holy Scriptures and of the Fathers, from Ignatius and Dionysius the Areopagite to Jerome and Gregory the Great, and even of later writers from Isidore and Bede, through Alcuin, Lanfranc and Anselm, down to Bernard of Clairvaux and the brethren of St Victor.
Gregory of Tours depicts her as ruthlessly murderous and sadistically cruel ; in his account, Fredegund perhaps has few rivals in monstrousness.
With this, he supplies an alternate view of everything going on at court, which at times differs from Gregory s account.
Gregory Maguire's most recent book, A Lion Among Men, is told primarily from the Lion's viewpoint, and its plot is centered around Brrr's account of his own origins, or lack thereof ( he is unsure, as his narration begins, of the whereabouts of his parents, herd, etc.
* an account in Syriac of the great actions of Blessed Gregory ( sixth century manuscript );
Drawing on family traditions and a knowledge of the neighbourhood, the account by Gregory of Nyssa is more reliably historical than other known versions of the Thaumaturge's life.
This work agrees in its dogmatics with Gregory of Nyssa, and is valuable on account of the numerous excerpts from the writings of the opponent of Macarius.
John Gregory Bourke's memoir of his service in the Indian wars, On the Border with Crook, describes a different account of Crazy Horse's death.
Julie Joell Gregory ( born May 16, 1969 in Columbus, Ohio ) is the author of Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood, an autobiographical account of the Münchausen syndrome by proxy abuse she suffered as a child.

Gregory and saint
The sacristy at Bobbio possesses a portion of the skull of the saint, his knife, wooden cup, bell, and an ancient water vessel, formerly containing sacred relics and said to have been given to him by St. Gregory.
In ancient literature, we find a reference to the workings of water-powered marble saws close to Trier, now Germany, by the late 4th century poet Ausonius ; about the same time, these mill types seem also to be indicated by the Christian saint Gregory of Nyssa from Anatolia, demonstrating a diversified use of water-power in many parts of the Roman Empire.
On July 16, 1228, he was pronounced a saint by Pope Gregory IX.
Gregory is a saint in both Eastern and Western Christianity.
The Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches honor him as a saint and count him among the Three Holy Hierarchs, together with Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzus.
* Gregory the Illuminator, founder and patron saint of the Armenian Church ( approximate date )
Gregory has been revered as a saint since time immemorial.
* Gregory of Nyssa, Christian bishop and saint ( approximate date )
* Gregory the Illuminator, founder and patron saint of the Armenian Church ( approximate date )
For many, the 1961 withdrawal of Pope Gregory XVI's 1837 authorization of liturgical veneration of Saint Philomena in a limited number of places ( which was not an official declaration that she never existed nor that she is not a saint ) merely means that the situation has returned to that existing before 1837, when in many places there was fervent devotion to her, accompanied only by vague speculation about the circumstances of her life and death or by belief in the revelations of the Neapolitan nun.
Marble sawmills also seem to be indicated by the Christian saint Gregory of Nyssa from Anatolia around 370 / 390 AD, demonstrating a diversified use of water-power in many parts of the Roman Empire.
** Gregory of Nyssa ( born 335 ), 4th-century Christian bishop, theologian and saint
He was canonized as saint for his devotion to religion, but the process was made null by Pope Gregory XI by request of Duke John V of Brittany.
He was canonized as saint for his devotion to religion, but the process was made null by Pope Gregory XI by request of Duke John V of Brittany.
Gregory of Tours, who was born in Auvergne in 544 and was well versed in the history of that country, looks upon Austremonius as one of the seven envoys who, about 250, evangelized Gaul ; he relates how the body of the saint was first interred at Issoire, being there the object of great veneration, before the body, though not the head, was translated to Issoire.
Saint Cetteus, the city's patron saint, was a bishop of the 6th century, elected to the see of Amiternum in Sabina ( today the city of San Vittorino ) in 590, during the pontificate of Gregory the Great.
In addition Pope Gregory XVII also canonized Francisco Franco, Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer and Christopher Columbus and declared Paul VI a martyr saint.
For example, even religious Catholic people named Gergely ( Gregory ) after Pope Gregory the Great still celebrate their name days on 12 March, although the Church moved the feast of that saint to 3 September in 1969.
The liturgy is patterned after the directives of Saint Gregory the Illuminator, founder and patron saint of The Armenian Church.
Gregory the Great gave impetus to the cult of Pancras, sending Augustine to England carrying relics of that saint and including his legend in Liber in gloria martyrum.
Surio, in his Historiae seu vitae sanctorum ( vol XI ( November ), pp. 956 – 957, Marietti, 1879 ), writes: " The first person to refer to this saint by name was Saint Gregory the Great, in Book Three of his Dialogues, chapter 17.
At the end of the Divine Liturgy, the dismissal also mentions the name of the saint who composed the Liturgy: Basil the Great, John Chrysostom, Gregory the Dialogist, or James, the Brother of the Lord.

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