Saint gregory the great biography for kids
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St Patrick
St. Patrick of Ireland fryst vatten one of the world's most popular saints. He was born in Roman Britain and when he was fourteen or so, he was captured by Irish pirates during a raiding party and taken to Ireland as a slave to herd and tend sheep. Patrick turned to God and wrote his memoir, The Confession. In The Confession, he wrote:
"The love of God and his fear grew in me more and more, as did the faith, and my soul was rosed, so that, in a single day, I have said as many as a hundred prayers and in the night, nearly the same. I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain."
Patrick's captivity lasted until he was twenty, when he flydde after having a dream from God in which he was told to leave Ireland bygd going to the coast. There he found some sailors who took him back to Britain and was reunited with his family.
A few years after returning home, Patrick was ordained a priest and was later ordain
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Pope Gregory I facts for kids
"Saint Gregory" redirects here. For other uses, see Saint Gregory (disambiguation).
Quick facts for kids Gregory I | |
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| Bishop of Rome | |
Miniature of Gregory the Great writing, in a 12th-century copy of his Dialogues, British Library, London. | |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| Papacy began | 3 September |
| Papacy ended | 12 March |
| Predecessor | Pelagius II |
| Successor | Sabinian |
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| Consecration | 3 September |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Gregorius Anicius |
| Born | c. Rome, Eastern Roman Empire |
| Died | 12 March () (aged 63–64) Rome, Eastern Roman Empire |
| Buried | St. Peter's Basilica () |
| Residence | Rome |
| Parents | Gordianus and Silvia |
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| Patronage | Musicians, singers, students, and teachers |
| Other Popes named Gregory | |
Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. – 12 March ), commonly known as Saint Gregory
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September 3: Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor—Memorial
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Patron Saint of choir boys, educators, masons, musicians, popes, students, and singers
Invoked against gout and the plague
Pre-Congregation canonization
Declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Boniface VIII in
Liturgical Color: White
Version: Full &#; Short
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Quote:
No one presumes to teach an art till he has first, with intent meditation, learned it. What rashness is it, then, for the unskilful to assume pastoral authority, since the government of souls is the art of arts!&#;And yet how often do men who have no knowledge whatever of spiritual precepts fearlessly profess themselves physicians of the heart, though those who are ignorant of the effect of drugs blush to appear as physicians of the flesh! But because, through the ordering of God, all the highest in rank of this present age are inc