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Pope Gregory X (Latin: Gregorius X; c. 1210 – 10 January 1276), born Teobaldo Visconti, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1 September 1271 to his death and was a member of the Secular Franciscan Order.
The Liber beatae Gregorii papae ('book of the blessed Pope Gregory'), often known in English as the Anonymous Life of Gregory the Great, is a hagiography of Pope Gregory I composed by an anonymous monk or nun at a Northumbrian monastery, usually thought to have been at Whitby, around 700.
The frontispiece of the Registrum Gregorii, depicting Pope Gregory the Great writing, was inspired by a story of how he was given dictation by the Holy Spirit. The story goes that while Pope Gregory was writing his sermon on Ezekiel, a curtain was drawn between him and his secretary, Deacon Peter. From the other side of the curtain, Pope ...
The January 1276 papal conclave (January 21–22), was the 1st papal conclave held under the rules of constitution Ubi periculum, issued by Pope Gregory X in 1274, which established papal conclaves. According to Ubi periculum Cardinals were to be secluded in a closed area; they were not even accorded separate rooms. No cardinal was allowed to ...
According to the later account created probably in the ecclesiastical circles of Piacenza and popularized by Franciscan historians, Cardinal Vicedomino de Vicedomini, bishop of Palestrina and (ostensibly) dean of the College of Cardinals, was elected pope on September 5 and took the name Gregory XI in honour of his uncle Gregory X, but he died within hours of his election, before it could be ...
The election of Teobaldo Visconti as Pope Gregory X was the first example of a papal election by "compromise", [3] that is, by the appointment of a committee of six cardinals agreed to by the other remaining ten (this method was attempted once before, in the 1227 papal election, but the choice of the committee refused the honor and the full ...
Plaque commemorating the popes buried in St. Peter's Basilica (their names in Latin and the year of their burial). This chronological list of popes of the Catholic Church corresponds to that given in the Annuario Pontificio under the heading "I Sommi Pontefici Romani" (The Roman Supreme Pontiffs), excluding those that are explicitly indicated as antipopes.
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