Gregory I
Noun
Meaning
(Roman Catholic Church) an Italian pope distinguished for his spiritual and temporal leadership; a saint and Doctor of the Church (540?-604)
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Examples
According to the Pope Gregory I 's letters, in the island co-existed a Romanized and Christianized area (that of the provinciales) with, in the interior, pagan or semi-pagan cultures (Gens Barbaricina).
Blair World of Bede p. 59 The medieval chronicler Bede says that Augustine sent Laurence back to Pope Gregory I to report on the success of converting King Æthelberht of Kent and to carry a letter with questions for the pope.
Fulsome letters of courtly praise from Pope Gregory I attest to this.
Pope Gregory I popularized the idea of Magdalene as a repentant sinner, performing one of the most dramatic slut-shaming maneuvers in history, robbing Magdalene of her apostle status, and heating up the Messianic narrative with some sexy penitence.
Thus, the " seven deadly sins " can be defined intensionally as those singled out by Pope Gregory I as particularly destructive of the life of grace and charity within a person, thus creating the threat of eternal damnation.
Pope Gregory I had tolerated in Lombardy those persons who defended the Three Letters, among them King Agilulf.