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Definition of Gregory xiii

1. Noun. The pope who sponsored the introduction of the modern calendar (1572-1585).

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Literary usage of Gregory xiii

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, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Thus Gregory XIII at least partly restored the old faith in England ... In the religious orders Gregory XIII recognized a great power for the conversion of ..."

2. History of the Popes: Their Church and State by Leopold von Ranke, E. Fowler (1901)
"Alb, [Commentaries on the affairs of Gregory XIII; books i. and ii.] Albani Library. Unfortunately incomplete. ..."

3. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"Gregory XIII followed in his steps, continuing his ideas in his international relations and in the persecution of the heretics, and furthering the tendency ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Gregory XIII followed in his steps, continuing his ideas in his international relations and in the persecution of the heretics, and furthering the tendency ..."

5. The History of the Popes: Their Church and State, and Especially of Their by Leopold von Ranke (1889)
"gregory xiii. AND SIXTUS IV. § 3. Gregory XIII This tendency was maintained by a party in the court, whose first object was to prevent it from declining. ..."

6. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by JAMES ANTHONY. FROUDE (1870)
"l Providence or chance was indeed at the moment curiously working for Elizabeth, and in the most unlikely quarter. On the 24th of April Gregory XIII. closed ..."

7. Dictionary of Historical Allusions by Harbottle, Thomas Benfield, d. 1904 (1904)
"The Bull of Gregory XIII, issued in 1582, ordaining the use of the new calendar throughout Christendom. Interdict. The proclamation issued by Innocent III ..."

8. The Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould (1882)
"His name was inserted in the Roman Marty rology by Pope Gregory XIII. S. IGNATIUS LOYOLA, C. (AD 1556.) [Roman Martyrology. Canonized by Pope Gregory XV., ..."

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