Definition of St. Gregory I

1. Noun. (Roman Catholic Church) an Italian pope distinguished for his spiritual and temporal leadership; a saint and Doctor of the Church (540?-604).


Lexicographical Neighbors of St. Gregory I

St. Dominic
St. Edward the Confessor
St. Edward the Martyr
St. Elias Mountains
St. Elias Range
St. Elmo's fire
St. Elmo's fires
St. Eustatius
St. Francis
St. Francis River
St. George
St. George's
St. George's Cross
St. George's Day
St. Gregory I (current term)
St. Gregory of Nazianzen
St. Ignatius
St. Ignatius of Loyola
St. James
St. James the Apostle
St. Jerome
St. John
St. John's
St. John Chrysostom
St. John River
St. John the Apostle
St. John the Baptist
St. Johns
St. Johns River

Literary usage of St. Gregory I

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... St. Gregory I (590-604), who succeeded Pelagius II, was at first on good terms with John IV. He had known him at Constantinople while he had been legate ..."

2. The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages by Horace Kinder Mann, Johannes Hollnsteiner (1902)
"St. Gregory I. THE GREAT. AD 590-604. Sources.—The short biography of Gregory in ... ST GREGORY I ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"55 (60) Pelagius I, 556-61 (61) John III, 561-74 (62) Benedict I, 575-79 (63) Pelagius II, 579-90 (64) St. Gregory I, 590-604 (65) ..."

4. History of the Church, from Its First Establishment to Our Own Times by Jodocus Adolph Birkhaeuser (1898)
"Out of the sixty-three Popes, who preceded St. Gregory I., the greater number sealed theit faith with their blood, and all, a few only excepted, ..."

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