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Scriptura sacra mentis oculis quasi quoddam speculum opponitur, ut interna nostra facies in ipsa videatur. Ibi etenim foeda, ibi pulchra nostra cogno… - Gregory I
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About Gregory I
Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. He is known for instigating the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian Mission, to convert the then-pagan Anglo-Saxons in England to Christianity. Gregory is also well known for his writings, which were more prolific than those of any of his predecessors as pope. The epithet Saint Gregory the Dialogist has been attached to him in Eastern Christianity because of his Dialogues.
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Native Name:
Gregorius PP. I
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Pope Gregory I
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Saint Gregory the Great
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St. Gregory the Dialogist
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Gregory
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Gregory the Great
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St Gregory
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Saint Gregory
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Pope St. Gregory I
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Saint Gregory I
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St Gregory I
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St Gregory the Great
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Pope Gregory the Great
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St. Gregory the Great
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Gregorius Anicius
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Gregorius Magnus
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Pope Saint Gregory I the Great
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Pope Saint Gregory I
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Saint Gregory the Dialogist
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Saint Gregorius Magnus
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Gregory The Great
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In vain do they think themselves innocent who appropriate to their own use alone those goods which God gave in common; by not giving to others that which they themselves receive, they become homicides and murderers, inasmuch as in keeping for themselves those things which would alleviate the sufferings of the poor, we may say that every day they cause the death of as many persons as they might have fed and did not. When, therefore, we offer the means of living to the indigent, we do not give them anything of ours, but that which of right belongs to them. It is less a work of mercy which we perform than the payment of a debt.
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