SAINT POPE GREGORY I THE GREAT

Saint Gregory the Great was born in Rome in a family of a wealthy senator, received good education, but preferred to lead modest and pious life rather than pursue a state career. When his father died, Gregory used inherited money to build six monasteries in Sicily and one in Rome (in the name of Saint Andrew). In 577, he became a deacon, and in 590, the Pope. According to a legend, once, during the mass, Christ appeared before him and the blood from Christ's stigmata flowed into the chalice.

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