Gregory I

Saint, known as Gregory the Great. ?540--604 ad, pope (590--604), who greatly influenced the medieval Church. He strengthened papal authority by centralizing administration, tightened discipline, and revised the liturgy. He appointed Saint Augustine missionary to England. Feast day: March 12 or Sept. 3

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Beginning in the first part but clearly threaded through the whole book is Demacopoulos's treatment of Gregory I's asceticism, which was not a private regime of fasting and self-flagellation but a thoroughly public series of practices, the goal of which was liberation from one's selfish desires in order unreservedly to serve the needs of others.

Gregory the Great: Ascetic, Pastor, and First Man of Rome

He himself translated Pope Gregory I's Pastoral Care, the world history by the 5th-century historian and theologian Paulus Orosius, and The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius.

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Andrew Cook's biogaphy of Maundy Gregory is to be published by Sutton Publishers in 2007.

Hawking peerages: Andrew Cook looks at the mysterious career of a man notorious for selling seats in the House of Lords

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