Carole Straw
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LOCATION: South Hadley, MA, United States
Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College. Author of Gregory the Great: Perfection in Imperfection and Gregory the Great.
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St. Gregory the Great ; Western feast day, September 3 [formerly March 12, still observed in the East]) was the pope from 590 to 604, a reformer and excellent administrator, “founder” of the medieval papacy, which exercised both secular and spiritual power. His epithet “the Great” reflects his…
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