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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Gregory II
But throughout all his pontificate, Gregory failed not to scan with anxiety the movements of the Saracens, and he is credited with having sent tokens of encouragement to the Frankish leaders who were stemming their advance in Gaul.
Probably, however, it was done by Gregory II about the year 727; though perhaps it is not quite equally probable that the two famous condemnatory letters which Gregory II is said to have sent to Leo III are genuine.
Gregory died in February, and was buried in St. Peter's (11 Feb., 731).
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 The Ecole Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Under Sergius I, Gregory was the librarian and the keeper of the purse; he accompanied Pope Constantine when the pope traveled to Constantinople to protest the anti-western canons of the Second Trullan (or Quintisext) Council (692).
Gregory was elected to the papacy in 715 and resisted the iconoclasm of Emperor Leo III the Isaurian.
Gregory sponsored the missionary activities of St. Boniface in Germany, and, like Gregory I, Gregory II converted his family mansion into a monastery.
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 Popes of the Roman Catholic Church - Table - MSN Encarta
Callistus II Honorius II Celestine II Innocent II Anacletus II Victor IV Celestine II Lucius II Bl.
Gregory IX Celestine IV Innocent IV Alexander IV Urban IV Clement IV Bl.
The Roman numerals in the name of Felix III (II), who reigned from 483 to 492, and Felix IV (III), who reigned from 526 to 530, vary depending on the acceptance (first numeral used) or nonacceptance (second number used) of the legitimacy of Felix II.
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 Who Was St. Gregory the Great?
Gregory received the best education of the day and, by the time he was 23 years old, he was Prefect of the city, the highest civil dignitary in Rome, president of the senate with supreme civil jurisdiction within a hundred miles of Rome, in charge of grain supplies, aqueducts, sewers, and finance.
Gregory said that he was not dispensing his own property, but the property of the poor, that the goods belonged to St. Peter, who was caring for his flock through Gregory.
Although Gregory clearly held the Orthodox view concerning the papacy, that the bishop of Rome was to be first in honor among the bishops, he rejected the notion of universal supremacy for any bishop and chastised the Patriarch of Constantinople for using the title “Ecumenical Patriarch” which had been given to him by the Emperor.
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 ST. GREGORY III
Not unnaturally angry, Gregory was going to degrade George from the priesthood, but the clergy of a synod held to consider the situation, persuaded the Pope to let George off with a penance.
Gregory held another synod, this time with ninety-three bishops and the clergy and people of Rome.
In the middle of all this trouble, late in 741, St. Gregory III died.
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 ST. GREGORY II
From his youth a cleric, Gregory was made treasurer by St. Sergius, and papal librarian.
As a deacon he accompanied Constantine on his visit to Justinian II and is credited with the skillful answers which at once satisfied the half-mad monarch and safeguarded Catholic doctrine and practice.
Gregory II showed great interest in the vital work of conversion going on in lands beyond the old empire's far-flung borders.
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 Pope St. Gregory II — Plinio Correa de Oliveira commentary on the Saint of the Day, February 13 @ TraditionInAction.org
Gregory II was Pope from 715 to 731.
Gregory II continued: “On that day you incurred the curse you have made.” It is a magnificent militant speech, again diametrically opposed to that of today’s pseudo-ecumenism.
Let us ask St. Gregory II to give us his combativeness, his discernment between truth and error, good and evil, which is a consequence of the spirit of faith, and a complete opposition to present day religious relativism.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Gregory III
Pope St. Gregory III was the son of a Syrian named John.
Gregory III confirmed the decision of his predecessors as to the respective rights of the Patriarchs of Aquileia and Grado, and sent the pallium to Antoninus of Grado.
Gregory I who had laid it down that York was to have metropolitical rights in the North of England, as Canterbury had to have them in the South.
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 Who is Saint Gregory
Gregory saw life as unending progress of discovering what God is doing in human life and sin as refusal to keep on growing in this discovery, for "the one thing truly worthwhile is becoming God's friend." Deep delight in human life and great optimism suffuses his writings.
Gregory's description of his visit to Macrina at the end of her life is among the most moving of his writings.
Gregory's Life of Moses, his great mystical reflection of Moses, and his final work, is available in many religious bookstores.
www.saintgregorys.org /Pages/SGbio.html   (567 words)

  
 christdesert: ST. GREGORY THE GREAT
Gregory I, pope from 590 to 604 and the last of the Latin Fathers of the Western Church, was born the scion of the patrician gens Anicia and the son of a Roman senator in 540.
Italy was being ravaged by the Lombards, and confronted by this fury the Imperial Exarchate in Ravenna was helpless.
Gregory was also active in the liturgical reform of the Roman Rite, though admittedly the extent of his actual contributions to the Gregorian Sacramentary are still to be ascertained.
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 ST. MATTHEW - Chapter II.
But taking it for granted that the wise men came to Jerusalem and to Bethlehem the same year that Christ was born, it is not certain on what day of the year they adored him at Bethlehem.
St. Jerome's observation seems to clear this point: he tells us, that the Jewish priests, who were consulted, gave Herod the sense, and not the very words of the prophet; and the evangelist, as an historian, relates to us the words of these priests to Herod, no the very words of the prophet.
Therefore also it was that St. Matthew did not cite any one prophet, but the prophets in general.
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 Hierarch Gregory the Dialogist, Pope of Rome   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Gregory was born in Rome about the year 540.
After the death of his father, St. Gregory spent all his fortune on the building of six monasteries.
Gregory compiled the order of the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts in the Latin tongue, which before him had been known only in oral tradition.
www.fatheralexander.org /booklets/english/saints/gregory_dialogist.htm   (518 words)

  
 St. Gregory II - Saint of the Day - American Catholic
Upon the death of Constantine, Gregory was chosen pope and installed in 715.
The great monastery near the church of St. Paul was reestablished, as was the abbey of Monte Cassino which had been destroyed by the Lombards 150 years before.
Under Gregory, pilgrims from England increased in numbers to such an extent that they required a church, a cemetery and a school of their own.
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 A Saint A Day
When St. Basil met him, he asked, "Are you Ephrem, the famous servant of Jesus?" Ephrem answered quickly, "I am Ephrem who walks unworthily on the way to salvation." Then he asked and received advice from St. Basil on how to grow in the spiritual life.
St. John told him that it was wrong for him to live with that woman.
St. Cyril was the representative of Pope St. Celestine I at the Council of Ephesus in 431.
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 Roman Catholic Church, Christian church headed by the pope, the bishop of Rome
Nicholas II Alexander II antipope: Honorius II St. Gregory VII antipope: Clement III
Urban II Paschal II antipope: Theodoric antipope: Albert antipope: Sylvester IV Gelasius II antipope: Gregory VIII
Calixtus II Honorius II antipope: Celestine II Innocent II antipope: Anacletus II antipope: Victor IV Celestine II Lucius II Eugene III
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 Pope 51th-100th
89 - St. GREGORY II Born in Rome, he was elected on the 19th May 715 and died on the llth February 731.
He discovered the remains of St. Petronilla who, according to tradition, was the daughter of St Peter.
The golden statue of the tomb of St. Peter and the silver pavement in front of the altar of the Confession are due to him.
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 Syllabus of Accusations against Popes & Some Responses
St. Ignatius of Antioch testifies to this three-fold hierarchy in his letter to the Magnesians (110 A.D.).
Benedict II (684-85) John V (685-86) Conon (686-87) St.
Zachary (741-52) Stephen II (752) Stephen III (752-57) St.
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 ECCLESIAE FASTOS
We were very glad, therefore, to hear that those countries which owe a special debt of gratitude to St. Boniface intend to make the twelfth centenary of the martyrdom of this shining glory of the Benedictine order an occasion of special rejoicing and public prayer.
Winfred, afterwards named Boniface by Pope St. Gregory II, was undoubtedly outstanding among the missionaries for his apostolic zeal and fortitude of soul, combined with gentleness of manner.
Then to the great joy of St. Boniface and all good men, the Church of the Franks was seen to flourish again and to shine with new splendor.
www.papalencyclicals.net /Pius12/P12FASTO.HTM   (3301 words)

  
 A chronological list of past Popes
Gregory IV Sergius II St. Leo IV Benedict III
Pope John Paul II officially announced the celebration of the Jubilee for the year 2000 with his apostolic letter "Tertio Millenio adveniente", dated November 24, 1994.
The Holy Doors at St. Peter's were opened during midnight mass on December 24, 1999 and the Jubilee ended on January 6, 2001.
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 Keeping Catholics Catholic Page XXV-The Timeline-The Eighth Century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Saint Boniface is authorized by Pope Gregory II to preach Christianity to all the tribes of Germany.
Pope St. Gregory II answered the Emperor by explaining the difference between pictures and idols with some surprise that Leo III did not already understand it.
Pope St. Gregory III consecrates St. Boniface as Archbishop of Germany.
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 Popes & Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, etc.
Gregory, Sylvester, and Benedict were all pushed aside by the Emperor Henry III, who installed Clement II (1046).
His seat is at Canterbury because this was the capital of the Kingdom of Kent, an obvious place for St. Augustine, who was sent in 596 by Pope Gregory (I) the Great (590-604), to seek royal favor, from King (later St.) Æthelbert I, for his mission.
Afterwards, it was demolished by the Ottomans for the Mosque of the Sult.ân Meh.med II (Fâtih.
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 Was Peter the first Pope?
St. Peter was martyred in Rome in A.D. 67 by crucifixion, asking to be crucified upside-down
The inverted Latin Cross is known as "St. Peter's Cross." Sadly, some Satanists have co-opted it for their demonic rituals, have stolen it for their twisted use in the same way that the rainbow -- a sign of God's promise to Noah -- was stolen by the "gay pride" movement.
Because Stephen II was elected but never consecrated (he died 3 days after his election), he is often not counted in official lists of Popes.
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 Paradox Interactive Forums - - ARCHIVE - Roma, The Holy See
With Paschal's successor, Eugene II, the friendly alliance was, by order of Louis, renewed in 824 by his eldest son and colleague in the empire, Lothair I. The pope, dependent on the protection of the emperor, then granted the emperor new rights, which mark the zenith of the imperial influence under the Carlovingians.
Gregory VII reformed these abuses and strongly claimed the supremacy of the church over the municipality, but he himself ended as an exile, Emperor Henry IV having taken Rome in 1084.
It was not until 1122 that Pope Callistus II issued a bulla establishing them as a lay religious community with specific responsibilities of guarding the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre and the city of Jerusalem in defense of Christianity against Muslim attack.
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 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Creations of Cardinals of the VIII Century
Mosco (or Muscus, or Musius), deacon of the II Region of Rome in 731.
Paulo, Roman, brother of Pope Stephen II (III), Cardinal deacon before 750, his deaconry is not known.
At the death of Pope St. Zacharias, Stephen, cardinal priest (or deacon) was elected pope but he died 4 days later without having received the episcopal consecration.
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 The Tree of the Christ Child
A stranger claims the warmth of your fire in the winter night.” As St. Boniface and his companions approached the fire, the eyes of the townspeople were on these strangers.
As the hammer fell, St. Boniface thrust his crozier against the hammer, and it fell from Hunrad’s hand, splitting in two the stone altar.
Then St. Boniface, with Hunrad sitting at his feet, told the story of Bethlehem, the Baby Jesus in the manger, the shepherds and the angels.
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 Catholic Exchange - Your Faith. Your Life. Your World.
Boniface and St. Corbinian were consecrated as bishops under Gregory II and sent to the tribes in Germany.
Gregory was pope during the reign of Emperor Leo III, who ordered that all holy images be destroyed.
Pope St. Gregory II was a supporter of the Benedictine order and of the missions of Boniface.
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 St. Boniface, Martyr
Although Christianity had already reached into Germany before him, St. Boniface deserves to be called its apostle because it was he who organized the German church.
But his heart was still in the mission field, so he soon resigned his office, and going to Rome in 718-719, he asked Pope St. Gregory II to commission him formally to preach to the German peoples.
This time, Pope Gregory consecrated Boniface a bishop (722), with authority to organize the German church.
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 Pope
While in Corinth, St. Clement, who was the Pope in 96 A.D., wrote appeals for the memory of the two martyrs, Peter and Paul (epistle to the Corinthians 5:3-7) He explicitly referred to the Apostles appointed bishops and made provisions for their succession.
St. Peter ended his days as the Bishop of Rome, and the Bishop of Rome succeeds to the ministry of St. Peter as the head of the universal Church.
All three of these bishops derived their authority from St. Peter and from ties of discipleship between Peter (in Rome) and his disciples Mark (in Alexandria) and Evodius (in Antioch).
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 Timeline 600CE to 999CE
The 5th century monastery of St. Theodosius east of Beit Sahour near Bethlehem was destroyed by the Persians.
802 In Cambodia Jayavarman II proclaimed himself a "universal monarch" in a ritual that united religion and politics and gave rise to the cult of the Devaraja (deified king).
Pope Gregory extended the Feast of All Saints on Nov 1 to France and Germany.
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 Medieval Sourcebook: Pope Gregory II - Appeal to Charles Martel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
As a result, the popes tunred increasingly in the 8th century towards the Franks and made a series of alliances, in particular, with the Carolingian majors of the palace.
In our great affliction we have thought it necessary to write to you a second time, believing that you are a loving son of St. Peter, the prince of apostles, and of ourselves, and that out of reverence for him you would obey our commands to defend the church of God and his chosen people.
We can now no longer endure the persecution of the Lombards, for they have taken from St. Peter all his possessions, even those which were given him by you and your fathers.
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 St. Gregory the Great: Dialogue II
GREGORY: When this great temptation was thus overcome, the man of God, like unto a piece of ground well tilled and weeded, of the seed of virtue brought forth plentiful store of fruit: and by reason of the great report of his wonderful holy life, his name became very famous.
GREGORY: In mine opinion, Peter, evil men may with good conscience be tolerated in that community, where there be some good that may be holpen, and reap commodity.
And so, in like manner, you shall quickly perceive, if you mark well, that venerable Bennet forsook not so many in one place, that were unwilling to be taught, as he did in sundry other places raise up from the death of soul many more, that were willing to be instructed.
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