![]() ![]() His mother Silvia appears also to have been of good family, but very little is known of her life. ![]() Gregory’s father was Gordianus, a wealthy patrician, probably of the famous gens Anicia, who owned large estates in Sicily and a mansion on the Caelian Hill in Rome, the ruins of which, apparently in a wonderful state of preservation, still await excavation beneath the Church of St. This eulogy by a learned non- Catholic writer will justify the length and elaboration of the following article. ![]() Almost all the leading principles of the later Catholicism are found, at any rate in germ, in Gregory the Great” (F. And further, in so far as the modern Catholic system is a legitimate development of medieval Catholicism, of this too Gregory may not unreasonably be termed the Father. To him we must look for an explanation of the religious situation of the Middle Ages: indeed, if no account were taken of his work, the evolution of the form of medieval Christianity would be almost inexplicable. He has exercised in many respects a momentous influence on the doctrine, the organization, and the discipline of the Catholic Church. Gregory “is certainly one of the most notable figures in Ecclesiastical History. ![]() Gregory I (The Great), Saint, Pope, Doctor of the Church b. ![]()
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