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St. Gregory the Great
from the Little Hours of John of Berry

September 3

Gregory (d. March 12, 604), was a Benedictine who became pope and was known for his reform of the liturgy. He sent the first missionaries to England and is credited with first calling it England. One of the four great doctors of the Latin Church, he wrote on many moral and theological subjects.