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Showing posts with label Pope Gregory I. Show all posts
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Saturday, September 03, 2022

"I am tossed with the waves of this wicked world" ~ Pope Saint Gregory the Great and Christian endurance during times of worldly distress

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Pope St. Gregory the Great in marble as executed by Nicholas Cordier in AD 1602. This work resides in the Oratory of Saint Barbara which is ...
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

The Rebel Usurper who Became a Saint ~ Saint Hermengild, prince of Visigothic Spain

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Saint Hermengild with the angels in Heaven, by Corrado Giaquinto , AD 1757 On April 13, AD 585, the Visigothic prince, Hermengild, was slain...
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A Roman tribune, my heroics helped defeat the Persians at the Battle of Satala in AD 530. Leading a squadron of heavy cavalry into the Persian center, I grabbed hold of the standards of the Persian general Mermeroes and flung them to the ground. Thinking their general slain, the Persian army fled from the field, but not before their elite Immortals dealt me a fatal wound.
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