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Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. [1] [a] He is known for instituting the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian mission, to convert the then largely pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. [2]
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.
An illuminated initial from Gregory's Commentary on Job, Abbey of Saint-Pierre at Préaux, Normandy. Moralia in Job ("Morals in Job"), also called Moralia, sive Expositio in Job ("Morals, or Narration about Job") or Magna Moralia ("Great Morals"), is a commentary on the Book of Job by Gregory the Great, written between 578 and 595.
The Libellus responsionum (Latin for "little book of answers") is a papal letter (also known as a papal rescript or decretal) written in 601 by Pope Gregory I to Augustine of Canterbury in response to several of Augustine's questions regarding the nascent church in Anglo-Saxon England. [1]
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He is also known as Gregorius Dialogus (Gregory the Dialogist) in Eastern Orthodoxy because of the Dialogues he wrote. He was the first of the popes from a monastic background. Gregory is a Doctor of the Church and one of the four great Latin Fathers of the Church (the others being Ambrose, Augustine, and Jerome).
The dialogues of Saint Gregory, surnamed the Great; pope of Rome & the first of that name. Divided into four books, wherein he entreateth of the lives and miracles of the saints in Italy and of the eternity of men's souls. London: Warner. Zimmerman, ODO John (1959). Saint Gregory the Great: Dialogues. New York: Catholic University of America Press.
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