Boniface returned to the continent the next year, and this time went straight to Rome, where Pope Gregory II renamed him " Boniface ", for the ( legendary ) fourth-century martyr Boniface of Tarsus, and appointed him missionary bishop for Germania -- he became a bishop without a diocese for an area that lacked any church organization.

He had something of that fraternal love which his brothers lacked and the preeminent chronicler of the period, Gregory of Tours, often calls him good king Guntram, as noted here, where Gregory discusses the fate of Guntram's three marriages:

In 1916 President Wilson wanted to appoint Gregory to the United States Supreme Court, but the attorney general declined the offer because of his impaired hearing, his eagerness to participate in Wilson's reelection campaign, and his belief that he lacked the necessary temperament to be a judge.

He reversed the practice of his predecessor Boniface IV of filling the papal administrative ranks with monks by recalling the clergy to such positions and by ordaining some 14 priests, the first ordinations in Rome since Pope Gregory.

In September 1230, after the reconciliation, Gregory IX received Frederick II in Anagni, who in the meantime had been able to conquer, without bloodshed but by means of his great diplomatic ability, both Jerusalem and Nazareth.

A few paleontologists, such as Gregory S. Paul, have suggested that some or all of these advanced theropods were actually descended from flying dinosaurs or proto-birds like Archaeopteryx that lost the ability to fly and returned to a terrestrial habitat.

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However, this was not successful, for according to Gregory of Tours, Amalaric pressured her to forsake her Roman Catholic faith and convert to Arian Christianity, at one point beating her until she bled ; she sent to her brother Childebert I, king of Paris a towel stained with her own blood.

Finally, the two brothers made peace with the mediation of the Papal Legate Gregory, and the king granted rule of Croatia and Dalmatia again to his brother.

The young Gregory and his brother, Caesarius, first studied at home with their uncle Amphylokhios.

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.

He was of the noble family of the counts of Tusculum ( son of Gregory, Count of Tusculum, and brother of future Pope John XIX ), descended from Theophylact, Count of Tusculum, just as was his predecessor Pope Benedict VI ( 973 – 974 ).

" Gregory secured for the Ludovisi two dukedoms, one for his brother Orazio, made a Nobile Romano and Duke of Fiano Romano, 1621, and the other, the Duchy of Zagarolo, purchased from the Colonna family by his nephew Ludovico Ludovisi in 1622.

Pope Gregory XIII had no connection with the plot of Henry, Duke of Guise, and his brother, Charles, Duke of Mayenne, to assassinate Elizabeth I in 1582.

Gregory, his brother Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus are collectively known as the Cappadocian Fathers

Gregory was elected bishop of the new see of Nyssa in 372, presumably with the support of his brother Basil, who was metropolitan of Caesarea.

Gregory's early policies as bishop often went against those of Basil: for instance, while his brother condemned the Sabellianist followers of Marcellus of Ancyra as heretics, Gregory may have tried to reconcile them with the church.

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.

Lilio's brother Antonio presented the manuscript to Pope Gregory XIII ; it was passed to the calendar reform commission in 1575.

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He began to advocate peace negotiations-indeed as early as 1373, during his great raid through France, he made contact with Guillaume Roger, brother and political adviser of Pope Gregory XI, to let the Pope know he would be interested in a diplomatic conference under papal auspices.

According to Gregory of Tours ( 538 – 594 ), Chilperic II was slain by his brother Gundobad in 493, and his wife drowned with a stone hung around her neck, while of his two daughters, Chrona took the veil and Clotilde was exiled-it is, however, assumed that this tale is apocryphal.

Some weeks later he named the peak after his brother, Sir Augustus Charles Gregory ( 1819 – 1905 ).

One of the first settlers was Samuel Benedict who bought land from the Paquioque natives in 1685 along with his brother James, James Beebe, and Judah Gregory.

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The Cappadocian Fathers ( or Cappadocian philosophers ) are Basil the Great ( 330-379 ), who was bishop of Caesarea ; Basil's younger brother Gregory of Nyssa ( c. 332-395 ), who was bishop of Nyssa ; and a close friend, Gregory of Nazianzus ( 329-389 ), who became Patriarch of Constantinople.

In the monastic library at Jarrow were a number of books by theologians, including works by Basil, Cassian, John Chrysostom, Isidore of Seville, Origen, Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine of Hippo, Jerome, Pope Gregory I, Ambrose of Milan, Cassiodorus, and Cyprian.

Along with the brothers Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa, he is known as one of the Cappadocian Fathers.

In this tense environment, Gregory interceded on behalf of his friend Basil with Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea ( Maritima ).

In the subsequent public debates, presided over by agents of the Emperor Valens, Gregory and Basil emerged triumphant.

This success confirmed for both Gregory and Basil that their futures lay in administration of the Church.

Gregory was ordained Bishop of Sasima in 372 by Basil.

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.

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

This strained his relationship with Basil, who insisted that Gregory resume his post at Sasima.

A Byzantine-style icon depicting the Three Holy Hierarchs: ( left to right :) Basil the Great, John Chrysostom and Gregory the Theologian.

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.

While there, Julian became acquainted with two men who later became both bishops and saints: Gregory of Nazianzus and Basil the Great ; in the same period, Julian was also initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries, which he would later try to restore.

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.

The Eastern Orthodox Church commemorates him as a " Great Ecumenical Teacher ", together with Basil the Great and Gregory the Theologian.

Through Origen and especially the scholarly presbyter Pamphilus of Caesarea, an avid collector of books of Scripture, the theological school of Caesarea won a reputation for having the most extensive ecclesiastical library of the time, containing more than 30, 000 manuscripts: Gregory Nazianzus, Basil the Great, Jerome and others came and studied there.

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Peter the Deacon gives a list of some seventy books Desiderius had copied at Monte Cassino, including works of Saint Augustine, Saint Ambrose, Saint Bede, Saint Basil, Saint Jerome, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus and Cassian, the registers of Popes Felix and Leo, the histories of Josephus, Paul Warnfrid, Jordanes and Saint Gregory of Tours, the Institutes and Novels of Justinian, the works of Terence, Virgil and Seneca, Cicero's De natura deorum, and Ovid's Fasti.

according to Gregory of Nazianzus, his mother was Emmelia of Caesarea, and his father, a rhetorician, has been identified either as Basil the Elder or as a Gregory.