GREGORY

L, surnamed the Great, 6. at | and« ~ Rome about 540, d. 604, was tho son of | Lou noble ta, who, at death, left him great } Colle; wealth, which he devoted chiefly to the | in th Obureh. He became a monk in one of the | work; ‘monasteries endowed by himself. Elected GR Eoeomhed by Chair in 590, he became dis- | was x a eterlf zeal, and sent | i821- “chy oe to attempt the | oppo: aes of England. His struggle | politi ‘gupremacy with the patriarch, Joha of | and ’ Gonstantinople, tended to widen thie breach | “* Me _ between the Eastern and Western Churches. are | _ His “Pastoral Caro” was one of the | licht ‘works translated into Apclo-Saxon at tue | the 1, command of Alfred the Great. GE [s. 162]