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  1. 1 day ago · He took the name Pope Gregory IX when elected pope in 1227. In 1239 Gregory IX excommunicated Frederick II when the emperor attempted to expand into papal territory. In 1241 Frederick threatened Rome, so Gregory deployed the crusading tools of indulgences, privileges, and taxes against him.

  2. 5 days ago · The “servant of the servants of God,” he called himself – a title and a measure that remained for every Pope after him. When he died in the year 604, the people made known what they thought of their “servant”: this Pope was not Gregory, but “Gregory the Great,” proclaimed a saint by popular acclaim.

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  4. 5 days ago · As pope, Gregory was responsible for sending missionaries that began the Christianization of Britain. Legend says that upon seeing some blond slaves in the Roman slave market, he asked who they were and was told they were Angles (from Anglo-Saxon).

  5. 5 days ago · Saint Gregory the Great. St. Gregory the Great, a central figure of the medieval western Church and one of the most admired Popes in history, is commemorated in the Ordinary Form of the Roman ...

  6. 2 days ago · In northern Europe, the Teutonic Knights, after their 12th- and 13th-century successes in the Northern Crusades, attempted (1240) to conquer the Eastern Orthodox Russian Republics of Pskov and Novgorod, an enterprise somewhat endorsed by Pope Gregory IX (r. 1227–1241).

  7. 4 days ago · Pope Leo I, who was the first pope to be remembered posthumously as “the great,” began his papacy in 440 and served until his death in 461. During his pontificate, he worked to clarify doctrines related to Christ’s human and divine natures.

  8. 5 days ago · Having promoted an antipope and marched on the Papal States, Henry eventually forced Gregory to flee from Rome. The holy pontiff died in exile in the year of Our Lord 1085. Traditional Roman Martyrology for May 25th. AT Salerno, the demise of the blessed pope Gregory VII, a most zealous protector and champion of ecclesiastical liberty.

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