Who
Prefect of Rome who became a monk, then pope from 590, the last of the four Latin Doctors and the pope who sent Augustine of Canterbury to the English. The Pastoral Rule, the Dialogues, the Moralia on Job, the Homilies on the Gospels and on Ezekiel and a register of some 850 letters made him the teacher of the Middle Ages. Aquinas cites his Gospel homilies throughout the Catena Aurea, and the chain quotes them on the Visitation and the Magi.
Lineage
In the succession →See of Rome, 590–604.
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Quoted in
Book I · Book II · Book III · Book IV · Book V · …
Luke 1:18–22 · Luke 1:26–27 · Luke 1:34–35 · Luke 1:36–38 · Luke 1:39–45 · …
Matthew 10:5–8 · Matthew 10:16–18 · Matthew 10:21–22 · Matthew 10:34–36 · Matthew 10:37–39 · …
Book IX · Book X · Book XI · Book XII · Book XIII · …
John 1:14 · John 1:18 · John 1:19–23 · John 1:24–28 · John 1:29–31 · …
Chapter 1 · Part I · Part II · Part III · …
Mark 1:4–8 · Mark 13:21–27 · Mark 13:32–37 · Mark 14:22–25 · Mark 14:43–52 · …