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<\/a>Isenbrant, Mass of St. Gregory the Great.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u2026St. Gregory was born at Rome in 540. He was successively senator and prefect of Rome before the age of 30. After five years he resigned and became a monk, transforming his own house into a Benedictine monastery, and founding six others. At the age of 50 he was elected pope, serving from 590 to 604. In 14 years he accomplished much for the Mystical Body of Christ.<\/p>\n
After seeing English children being sold as slaves in Rome, he sent 40 monks, including St. Augustine of Canterbury, from his own monastery to make \u201cthe Angles angels.\u201d England owes her conversion to him. At a period when the invasion of the barbarian Lombards created a new situation in Europe, he played a great part in winning them for Christ. When Rome itself was under attack, he personally went to interview the Lombard King.<\/p>\n
At the same time he watched equally over the holiness of the clergy and the maintenance of Church discipline, the temporal interests of his people of Rome and the spiritual interests of all Christendom. He removed unworthy priests from office, forbade taking money for many services, and emptied the papal treasury to ransom prisoners of the Lombards and to care for persecuted Jews and victims of plague and famine. These deeds and others made him, in the words of an antiphon in his office, \u201cthe Father of the City, the joy of the World.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gregory reformed the liturgy, and it still contains several of his most beautiful prayers. The name \u201cGregorian chant\u201d recalls this great Pope\u2019s work in the development of the Church\u2019s music. His commentaries on Holy Scripture exercised a considerable influence on Christian thought in the Middle Ages. St. Gregory died on March 12, 604. His body lies at St. Peter\u2019s in Rome.<\/p>\n
Patron<\/span>: choir boys; educators; gout; masons; music; musicians; choirs; singers; stonecutters; teachers; popes; students; scholars; against plague; against gout; against fever; England; West Indies;<\/p>\n Symbols: dove (the Holy Spirit perched upon St. Gregory\u2019s shoulder while he wrote); bishop\u2019s staff; book and a pen; papal tiara; a church; a sheet of music written in Gregorian style (4 lines, with square notes); scroll with the words, \u201cOra pro nobis Deum\u201d; desk and book; altar; double or triple cross; eagle; lectern; tall cross and book.<\/p>\n Isenbrant, Mass of St. Gregory the Great. \u2026St. Gregory was born at Rome in 540. He was successively senator and prefect of Rome before the age of 30. After five years he resigned and became a monk, transforming his own house into a Benedictine monastery, and founding six others. At the age of 50 he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/18613340-8670854892313908815?l=thecrescat.blogspot.com\")