German King Henry III intervened, and at the Council of Sutri in December 1046 Benedict IX and Sylvester III were declared deposed while Gregory VI was encouraged to resign, which he did.

The upshot of this was that Gregory refused to pay the additional taxes, he encouraged the Roman populace to drive the imperial governor of Rome from the city, and Leo was unable to impose his will upon Rome, as Lombard pressure kept the exarch of Ravenna from fielding an army to bring the pope to heel.

Gregory then actively encouraged the rebellion of Thrasimund II of Spoleto, forcing Liutprand to temporarily abandon his attacks on the Exarchate, and turn his attention towards Spoleto, which Liutprand annexed.

It is speculated that Pope Gregory VII personally encouraged the Justinian rule of law, and possessed a copy of it.

It was a resort of pilgrims, whose devotions were encouraged by an indulgence granted by Pope Gregory in the 11th century.

He encouraged resettlement of Georgians in these lands, and patronized monastic life initiated by the prominent Georgian ecclesiastic figure Grigol Khandzteli ( Gregory of Khandzta ; 759 – 861 ) in Klarjeti.

A stream of famous visitors, including Charlie Chaplin and the anthropologists Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, encouraged the talented locals to create highly original works.

" Nevertheless, Whitfield and Buckmaster encouraged Gregory to write the song and the result was " Love Don't Live Here Anymore ", inspired by Gregory's own situation and his deteriorating physical health.

The Gaelic Athletic Association, the Gaelic League and the cultural revival under W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory, together with the new political thinking of Arthur Griffith expressed in his newspaper Sinn Féin and the organisations the National Council and the Sinn Féin League led to the identification of Irish people with the concept of a Gaelic nation and culture, completely independent of Britain.

Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief during its early years.

In 1896, Yeats was introduced to Lady Gregory by their mutual friend Edward Martyn.

Together with Lady Gregory, Martyn, and other writers including J. M. Synge, Seán O ' Casey, and Padraic Colum, Yeats was one of those responsible for the establishment of the " Irish Literary Revival " movement.

In 1899, Yeats, Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and George Moore established the Irish Literary Theatre for the purpose of performing Irish and Celtic plays.

John painted many distinguished contemporaries, including T. E. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, Lady Gregory, Tallulah Bankhead, George Bernard Shaw, the cellist Guilhermina Suggia, the Marchesa Casati and Elizabeth Bibesco.

* The Irish Literary Theatre is founded by William Butler Yeats, Augusta, Lady Gregory, George Moore and Edward Martyn

The Abbey served as a nursery for many of the leading Irish playwrights and actors of the 20th century, including William Butler Yeats, Augusta, Lady Gregory, Sean O ' Casey and John Millington Synge.

Founded by Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and W. B. Yeats in 1899 — with assistance from George Moore — it presented plays in the Ancient Concert Rooms and the Gaiety Theatre, which brought critical approval but limited public interest.

Yeats, Lady Gregory, John Millington Synge, and Sean O ' Casey.

A sea change in the history of the Irish theatre came with the establishment in Dublin in 1899 of the Irish Literary Theatre by W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, George Moore and Edward Martyn.

Yeats, Lady Gregory, John Millington Synge, George Moore, and Sean O ' Casey.

Here, Irish writers including William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, " AE " Russell, Edward Martyn and Edward Plunkett ( AKA Lord Dunsany ) stimulated a new appreciation of traditional Irish literature and Irish poetry in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Figures such as Lady Gregory, WB Yeats, George Russell, J. M.

Martyn was renowned as a networker, and was pivotal in introducing William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory.

He later parted ways with Yeats and Gregory, something he later regretted, but remained on warm terms with Lady Gregory till the end of his life.

In that year appeared Hyde's The Love Songs of Connacht, which inspired Yeats, John Millington Synge and Lady Gregory.

Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn published a " Manifesto for Irish Literary Theatre " in 1897, in which they proclaimed their intention of establishing a national theater for Ireland.

The Irish Literary Theatre was founded by Yeats, Lady Gregory and Martyn in 1899, with assistance from George Moore.

In 1903 Yeats, Lady Gregory, George Russell (" AE "), Edward Martyn, and Synge founded the Irish National Theatre Society with funding from Annie Horniman ; Fred Ryan was secretary.

It staged many plays by eminent or soon-to-be eminent authors, including Yeats, Lady Gregory, Moore, Martyn, Padraic Colum, George Bernard Shaw, Oliver St John Gogarty, F. R. Higgins, Thomas MacDonagh, Lord Dunsany, T. C. Murray, James Cousins and Lennox Robinson.

During this period, Colum started to write and met a number of the leading Irish writers of the time, including W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory and Æ.

He became a friend of Yeats and Lady Gregory.

The ambitions of Gregory's father to have his son rise in the Church hierarchy and the insistence of his friend Basil convinced Gregory to accept this position despite his reservations.

He was convinced to leave Rome and travel up to join Lothair, in hopes that his intervention would promote peace, but in practice this action annoyed the Frankish bishops who followed Louis, who believed that Gregory was actively supporting Lothair.

A visit to the villa of Cardinal Luigi d ' Este in 1573 convinced Pope Gregory XIII to start the building of a summer residence the following year, in an area considered healthier than the Vatican Hill or Lateran: His architects were Flaminio Ponzio and Ottaviano Nonni, called Mascherino ; under Pope Sixtus V, works were continued by Domenico Fontana ( the main facade on the Piazza ) and Carlo Maderno, and by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Pope Clement XII.

Pope Gregory, however, met with Liutprand, and convinced him to abandon the effort, then with Liutprand's help effected a reconciliation with Eutychius.

Pope Gregory I was convinced that Reccared refused bribes from the Jewish community, which was large, well-connected throughout the Mediterranean and powerful, and Reccared's laws provided that the offspring of a Christian and a Jew be baptised, which was of little moment to the Jewish community, as whether it was not born of a Jewish mother or was born of a Jewish woman outside her community, the child was not considered a Jew anyway.

Hogg appealed to Leigh Hunt, who convinced Gregory not to publish.

In the late sixth century Gregory of Tours was convinced of the miraculous powers of the Theban Legion, though he transferred the event to Cologne, where there was an early cult devoted to Maurice and the Theban Legion:

Therefore, Pope Gregory IX requested him to give up this practice.

Gregory agreed and John initially did as well, but then he fled the council, hoping that without him it would lose its authority.

Within few years of his departure, St. Gregory of Nazianzus called him the " Pillar of the Church ".

St Gregory Nazianzen, fellow Doctor of the Church, 330-390, said in Or. 21: " When I praise Athanasius, virtue itself is my theme: for I name every virtue as often as I mention him who was possessed of all virtues.

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.

Bishop Christian continued his mission in Sambia ( Samland ), where from 1233 to 1239 he was held captive by pagan Prussians, and freed in trade for five other hostages who then in turn were released for a ransom of 800 Marks, granted to him by Pope Gregory IX.

Finally, Gregory gave absolution to him.

By 1080, Henry had shown enough of a recalcitrant attitude that Gregory excommunicated him for good.

She carried on a long correspondence with Pope Gregory XI, also asking him to reform the clergy and the administration of the Papal States.

Former Pope Gregory XII was then created titular Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Santa Ruffina by the Council, with rank immediately below the Pope ( which made him the highest-ranking person in the Church, since, due to his abdication, the See of Peter was vacant ).

Thus, when Gregory was selected as a candidate for the bishopric of Constantinople, both Alexandria and Rome opposed him because of his Antiochene background.

Gregory of Tours tells a miraculous tale of a builder whose art and techniques suddenly left him, but were restored by an apparition of the Virgin Mary in a dream.

Through Vrtanes, Gregory and Miriam would have further descendants and when Gregory died, Aristaces succeeded him.

On the way to Athens his ship encountered a violent storm, and the terrified Gregory prayed to Christ that if he would deliver him, he would dedicate his life to His service.

In 361 Gregory returned to Nazianzus and was ordained a presbyter by his father, who wanted him to assist with caring for local Christians.

The younger Gregory, who had been considering a monastic existence, resented his father's decision to force him to choose between priestly services and a solitary existence, calling it an " act of tyranny ".

Gregory would later refer to his episcopal ordination as forced upon him by his strong-willed father and Basil.

Although Gregory's health did not permit him to attend the funeral, he wrote a heartfelt letter of condolence to Basil's brother, Gregory of Nyssa and composed twelve memorial poems dedicated to the memory of his departed friend.

His cousin Theodosia offered him a villa for his residence ; Gregory immediately transformed much of it into a church, naming it Anastasia, " a scene for the resurrection of the faith ".

Shocked, Gregory decided to resign his office, but the faction faithful to him induced him to stay and ejected Maximus.

The Liturgy of St Gregory the Theologian in use by the Coptic Church is named after him.

The Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches celebrate two feast days in honor of Gregory: January 25 as his primary feast and January 30, known as the feast of the Three Great Hierarchs, which commemorates him along with John Chrysoston and Basil of Caesarea.

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.