Pope Gregory was pious and charitable

had lofty notions of the papal authority, was a reformer ot the clerical discipline, and after his death was canonized. His works are comprised in four volumes. He died in 604. Gregory VII., Hildebrand, sop of a carpenter; born in Soano, Tusrany, about 1020. He was the friend and counsellor of Leo IX. and the four succeeding Sg and on the death of Alexander Il. was elected to succeed him in 1073. He obtained confirmation in his election from the Emperor Henry LY., and immediately applied himself zealously to reform simony and the licentiousne of the clergy. In his view, however, mar- He - no le than concubinage, was a sin in them, He menaced the emand the King of France, the latter without effect. In 1074 he a embled a council, by which it was forbidden the — to receive investiture of a layman; and this was the first step in the quarrel with the emperor, which lasted so many = Henry, disregarding the papal authority, was summoned to Rome; but he held a diet at Worms and _pronounced the deposition of the Pope. To this Gregory replied by procuring the deposition of the emperor and the election of another, Rudolph of Suabia. Henry now promised submi ion; and in the early winter of 1077 went with his wife and child to Italy. The Pope was at the castle of Cano a, and there, after keeping the penitent Emperor of Germany three days waiting at the pate, he received him and gave him absolution. The ‘terms imposed on him were intolerable, and_he soon broke them, made war on Rudolph, and defeated him, set up a rival. Pope in Guibert, Archbishop of Ravenna, with the title of Clement IIL, and after several unsucce ful attempts entered Rome in 1084, had himself crowned emperor by his own Pope. _ Gregory retired to Salerno where he died May 25, 1085. Gregory XIII., Buoncompagno, born in Bologna in 1502; succeeded Pope Pius V. in 1572. His pontificate is memorable for the reformation of the calendar which bears his name.