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Gregory the Great

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The Asceticism Fan Boy, a Cardinal Deacon

He was sent to constantinople as papal ambassador. He brought some monks with him and wrote a wonderful book, a commentary on job called t moralia. Then he comes back home to rome after the end of the term,. There's a plague. There's a threat of famine. And we'd think of the gregorian chant that goes back to the gregian reform of the liturgy. That is the gregory gregory. He's gregory the first. The pope took his title something that the popes to this day use. He's servant of the servants of god. Ye, and how he brought us together.

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