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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.
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]
Widowed before his election as pope Yes Himself the son of a priest, Felix fathered two children, one of whom was subsequently the mother of Pope Gregory the Great (making the latter his grandson). [11] Hormisdas: 514–523 Widowed before he took holy orders Yes Father of Pope Silverius. [12] Adrian II: 867–872
Apart from a short poem attributed to Mark of Monte Cassino, [8] the only ancient account of Benedict is found in the second volume of Pope Gregory I's four-book Dialogues, thought to have been written in 593, [9] although the authenticity of this work is disputed. [10]
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.
Pope Gregory the Great's Dialogues, written in the late 6th century, evidence a development in the understanding of the afterlife distinctive of the direction that Latin Christendom would take: As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire.
Pope 1. Gregory the Great* One of the four Great Latin Fathers: 540 (c.) 604: 1298: Pope, OSB: Dialogues, Libellus responsionum, Pastoral Care, Moralia in Job: Pope Boniface VIII: 2. Ambrose* One of the four Great Latin Fathers: 340 (c.) 397: 1298: Bishop of Milan: Ambrosian hymns, Exameron, De obitu Theodosii: 3. Augustine of Hippo*
Gregory I the Great (c. 540 – 604) was pope from 3 September 590 until his death. 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.