Pope St. Gregory the Great on Defending the Church
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Gregory Is So Big That I Missed a Lot
Gregory was born just a matter of decades after the fall of the last Western Roman emperor. He commissions an absolutely monumental kind of synthesis of Roman law, the Justinianic code. The Hagia Sophia would have looked like covered in icons and mosaics if it had been built under Gregory.
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