Tag: Saint Gregory
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05 Works, Today, March 12th, is Saint Gregory the Great’s Day, With Footnotes – #70
Pope Gregory I (c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was Pope from 3 September 590 to 12 March 604 AD. He is famous for instigating the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian Mission, to convert the then-pagan Anglo-Saxons in England to Christianity. The mission was successful, and…