Influenced partly by the fact that Gregory was the son of his father's enemy, he ordered Gregory imprisoned for twelve ( some sources indicate fourteen ) years in a pit on the Ararat Plain under the present day church of Khor Virap located near the historical city Artashat in Armenia.

Pope Gregory IV ordered its church-wide observance in 837.

Louis also ordered, at the urging of Pope Gregory IX, the burning in Paris in 1243 of some 12, 000 manuscript copies of the Talmud and other Jewish books.

When Honorius took possession of Fumone, he returned it, after taking safeguards, to its rebellious custodians and ordered that the Antipope Gregory VIII be transferred there from his previous lodgings at Monte Cassino.

Clement X confirmed the exemptions granted by Pope Gregory XIII ( 1572 – 85 ) to the German College at Rome in 1671 ; and then, on 16 October 1672, he ordered the pupils to swear that at the close of their studies they would set out for Germany without a day's delay.

He issued two other decrees: one confirmed an earlier decree of Pope Gregory X that ordered the shutting of the cardinals in a conclave to elect a new pope ; the second declared the right of any pope to abdicate the papacy, a right that he himself exercised at the end of five months and eight days at Naples on 13 December 1294.

He ordered to be erected in the heart of St. Peter ’ s Basilica an iconostasis, situated between six onyx and marble columns which had been sent to Gregory as a gift from the exarch Eutychius.

In a decree dated 18 April 1591 ( Bulla Cum Sicuti ), Gregory XIV ordered reparations to be made by Catholics in the Philippines to the natives, who had been forced into slavery by Europeans, and he commanded under pain of excommunication of the owners that all native slaves in the islands be set free.

On 4 May 1408, Gregory XII convened his cardinals at Lucca and ordered them not to leave the city under any pretext.

Pope Gregory IX considered, but did not put into effect, the idea of extending this missal, as revised by the Franciscans, to the whole Western Church ; and in 1277 Pope Nicholas III ordered it to be accepted in all churches in the city of Rome.

Provisions were also made for those who promised to join the crusade Gregory X had ordered, but had failed to actually go on the crusade.

" Pope Gregory XVI found the advertising tone of this inscription so inappropriate that he ordered its removal in 1845.

When he is ordered to fly one mission at low altitude to increase accuracy, Davenport rushes to headquarters and confronts his friend, Brigadier General Frank Savage ( Gregory Peck ), the A-3 ( Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations ) of VIII Bomber Command.

Upon Ladislaus ' initiative, Pope Gregory VII ordered the canonization of the first king of Hungary, Stephen I and his son, Emeric ( Imre ).

Gregory and Haines may have gone looking for Turpin, because on 17 February they stopped at an alehouse in Debden and ordered a shoulder of mutton, intending to stay for the night.

When one Tiberius Petasius proclaimed himself emperor in Tuscia and Eutychius found himself critically short of manpower, Pope Gregory ordered the Roman army to help him put down the rebellion, and Petasius was killed.

In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII published his bull Inter gravissimas and ordered the Catholic kings to comply with the change from the Julian calendar, based on the calculations of the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius or Giglio.

After Konrad's death, Pope Gregory declared Konrad to have been an upholder of the Christian faith, and ordered his killers punished.

* Gregory Taylor was serving a 25 years to life sentence for trying to break into a soup kitchen in 1997 when he was ordered to be released by Judge Peter Espinoza of California Superior Court in 2010.

Pope Gregory IX ordered in 1230 his chaplain and confessor, St. Raymond of Peñaforte ( Pennafort ), a Dominican, to form a new canonical collection destined to replace all former collections.

The decretals of the successors of Gregory IX were also arranged in collections, of which several were official, notably those of popes Innocent IV, Gregory X and Nicholas III, who ordered their decretals to be inserted among those of Gregory IX.

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.

Pope Gregory XI's return to Rome in 1377, followed by his death and the controversial election of his successor, Pope Urban VI, resulted in the defection of a number of cardinals and the election of a rival pope based at Avignon in 1378.

A number of prayers, and about thirty of the canons of the Armenian Church are ascribed to Gregory the Illuminator.

St Gregory defended hesychasm in the 1340s at three different synods in Constantinople, and he also wrote a number of works in its defense.

Gregory also mandated a number of practices within the Church.

In 833, Gregory completely rebuilt St Mark ’ s Basilica in Rome, adorning the walls with Byzantine-style mosaics, as well as a number of other churches which he either repaired or rebuilt.

Gregory was also asked by emperor Louis ’ s representative, Amalarius of Metz, to provide an Antiphonary for use at church services at Metz, to which Gregory was forced to admit that he had none suitable for the emperor, as he had already given a number to Wala of Corbie, which he had already taken to Francia.

Convinced that nothing could meet the challenges facing the Church except imperial intervention, a number of influential clergy and laity separated themselves from communion with Gregory VI or either of his two rivals and implored Emperor Henry III to cross the Alps and restore order.

Other notables included Karl Urban in a variety of roles such as Cupid and Caesar, Hudson Leick as Xena's nemesis Callisto ( Leick also played a body-switched Xena in the episode Intimate Stranger ), Claire Stansfield as the evil shamaness Alti ; and a number of trusted friends – Jennifer Sky as feisty sidekick Amarice, Bruce Campbell as Autolycus King of Thieves, Robert Trebor as dodgy entrepreneur Salmoneus, William Gregory Lee as the warrior-poet Virgil and Tim Omundson as the spiritual healer Eli.

A small number assembled nonetheless, and, in accordance with their wishes, Gregory again excommunicated Henry.

Anthony Gregory has written that right-wing, or conservative libertarianism, " can refer to any number of varying and at times mutually exclusive political orientations.

Wallis Budge, The Chronography of Gregory Abu ' l-Faraj, vol I, p. 98, APA – Philo Press, Amsterdam, 1932 ): ( After the Arab pillage of Rhodes ) " And a great number of men hauled on strong ropes which were tied round the brass Colossus which was in the city and pulled it down.

A number of ' new men ' were raised to prominence by John II, these included Gregory Taronites, Manuel Anemas and Theodore Vatatzes, the latter two also became his sons-in-law.

Historian Gregory Michno settles on a low number around 1000 based on contemporary Lakota testimony, but other sources place the number at 1800 or 2000, especially in the works by Utley and Fox.

Gregory wrote a number of works in its defense and defended hesychasm at six different synods in Constantinople ultimately triumphing over its attackers in the synod of 1351.

Young, well-intentioned Barry Kohler ( Steve Guttenberg ) stumbles upon a secret organization of Third Reich war criminals holding clandestine meetings in Paraguay and realises that Dr Josef Mengele ( Gregory Peck ), the infamous Auschwitz doctor, is among their number.

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.

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.

Gregory is number 82 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Standups of all time and has his own star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.

The upper floor has one called the Mass of Saint Gregory and the ground floor contains frescos with scenes from the life of Francis of Assisi, along with portraits of a number of Franciscan monks.

Lady Gregory produced a number of books of retellings of stories taken from Irish mythology.