Gregory of Nyssa discusses the long-before believed possibility of purification of souls after death.

Pope Gregory I repeats the concept, articulated over a century earlier by Gregory of Nyssa that the saved suffer purification after death, in connection with which he wrote of " purgatorial flames ".

In 346, following the death of Gregory, Constans used his influence to allow Athanasius to return to Alexandria.

The second book begins with the death of Gregory the Great in 604, and follows the further progress of Christianity in Kent and the first attempts to evangelise Northumbria.

* Omega and why maths has no TOEs article based on one written by Gregory Chaitin which appeared in the August 2004 edition of Mathematics Today, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Alan Turing's death.

Upon the death of Gregory, the cardinals elected a new pope, Victor III.

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.

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 ".

Her older half-sister Pulcheria predeceased her parents as mentioned in the writings of Gregory of Nyssa, placing the death of Pulcheria prior to the death of Aelia Flaccilla, first wife of Theodosius I, in 385.

With the death of the emperor, Gregory and the Eastern churches were no longer under the threat of persecution, as the new emperor Jovian was an avowed Christian and supporter of the church.

After the death of the presiding bishop, Meletius of Antioch, Gregory was selected to lead the Council.

Following his death, Saint Gregory was buried at Nazianzus.

Glyndŵr's opportunities were further limited by the death of Sir Gregory Sais in 1390 and the sidelining of Richard Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel, and he probably returned to his stable Welsh estates, living there quietly for ten years during his forties.

After the long deadlocked vacancy in the papal see after the death of Clement IV, a vacant seat of three years, he was one of the six cardinals who finally elected Pope Gregory X by compromise on 1 September 1271 in a conclave held at Viterbo because conditions in Rome were too turbulent.

Pope Saint Gregory II ( 669 – 11 February 731 ) was pope from 19 May 715 to his death on 11 February 731.

After Constantine ’ s death on 9 April 715, Gregory was elected pope, and was consecrated as Bishop of Rome on 19 May 715.

Although Classis was retaken in 728, fighting continued between Byzantine forces and the Lombards until 729, when Gregory brokered a deal between Liutprand and the Byzantine exarch, Eutychius, bringing about a temporary ceasing of hostilities that held until Gregory ’ s death.

Consecrated a priest during the pontificate of Pope Paschal I, at the time of Pope Valentine ’ s death in 827, Gregory was the Cardinal priest of the Basilica of St Mark in Rome.

Gregory VI was accompanied by Hildebrand, who remained with him until his death.

Pope Gregory VIII ( c. 1100 / 1105 – 17 December 1187 ), born Alberto di Morra, was Pope from 25 October 1187 until his death.

On 21 October 1187, the day after the death of Pope Urban III, Alberto di Morra was elected pope and took the name Gregory VIII in honor of Pope Gregory VII.

Louis XIV died in 1715 and was succeeded by his five-year-old great grandson who reigned as Louis XV until his death in 1774.

On 6 August 1623, after the papal conclave following the death of Pope Gregory XV, he was chosen as Gregory's successor and took the name Urban VIII.

Philip quickly revived Spanish ambition ; taking advantage of the power vacuum caused by Louis XIV's death in 1715, Philip announced he would claim the French crown if the infant Louis XV died and attempted to reclaim Spanish territory in Italy, precipitating the War of the Quadruple Alliance in 1717.

* May 10 – Louis XVI becomes King of France following the death of his grandfather, Louis XV.

In 1622, forty years after her death, she was canonized by Pope Gregory XV, and in 1970 named a Doctor of the Church by Pope Paul VI.

Louis XVI had become the dauphin of France upon the death of his father, the son of Louis XV, in 1765.

Marie Antoinette assumed the title of Queen of France and of Navarre when her husband, Louis XVI of France, ascended the throne upon the death of Louis XV in May 1774.

The strict and conservative education he received from the Duc de La Vauguyon, " gouverneur des Enfants de France " ( governor of the Children of France ), from 1760 until his marriage in 1770, did not prepare him for the throne that he was to inherit in 1774 after the death of his grandfather, Louis XV.

But the piece fell into disuse after the death of Louis XV.

Louis XV ( 15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774 ) was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1 September 1715 until his death.

For instance, Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour ended their sexual relationship after 1750 but she remained his official mistress for fourteen more years, until her death.

) " Dago ( me )" ( assumed to be Mieszko I ) gifted his territory to Pope John XV and received his domains from him as a fief in this Dagome iudex,, not date, apparently issued shortly before his death, ca.

Many miracles are said to have been wrought at his grave ; only 20 years after his death, Ulrich was one of the first saints to be officially canonized by Pope John XV on July 4, 993 ( the first saint to be canonized " officially " by the Vatican, rather than solely by public accord.

Oeben's distinguished marquetry appears at its most ambitious on the famous, minutely-documented roll-top Bureau du Roi, made for Louis XV, which was begun in 1760 and remained unfinished at his death ; it was finished and delivered in 1769, signed by Jean Henri Riesener, but it was Oeben who devised its intricate mechanisms.

Stanislaw's son-in-law Louis XV supported his claims to the Polish throne after the death of August II the Strong in 1733, which led to the War of the Polish Succession.

After the death of Gregory XV, Guercino returned to his hometown.

Here is a description of the death of Robert-François Damiens, who attempted to kill Louis XV:

In November 1863 he succeeded William Tecumseh Sherman in command of the XV Corps ; and after the death of McPherson he commanded the Army of the Tennessee at the Battle of Atlanta ( July 22, 1864 ) until relieved by Oliver O. Howard.

Christian lore commonly held that he is the man caught gathering sticks on the sabbath and sentenced by God to death by stoning in the book of Numbers XV. 32-36.

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, also known as Madame de Pompadour ( 29 December 1721 – 15 April 1764, ) was a member of the French court and was the official chief mistress of Louis XV from 1745 to her death.

Although they had ceased being lovers after 1750, they remained friends, and Louis XV was devoted to her until her death from tuberculosis in 1764 at the age of forty-two.

Besides the Petit Carême, a sermon which he delivered before the young king Louis XV of France in 1718, his sermons on the Prodigal Son, on the small number of the elect, on death, for Christmas Day, and for the Fourth Sunday in Advent, may be perhaps cited as his masterpieces.

He is represented as a symposiarch and he occupies a couch alone ; his death is passed over in silence in Book XV 686 c.

The uprising of 1715 was badly botched and the death of Louis XIV meant the Pretender had lost his major sponsor ; King Louis XV wanted peace with Britain and refused to endorse any further schemes.

On the death of Louis XV in 1774, Rohan was recalled from Vienna, and coldly received in Paris ; but his family's influence was too great for him to be neglected ; in 1777 he was made grand almoner, and in 1778, abbot of St. Vaast.