"Gregory the great" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Gregory the Great sent a gift of ivory to Theodolinda, Queen of the Lombards, in 600. This is decorated with three figures, and is ...
— Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages • Julia De Wolf Addison
... Christianity very early, and, as is reported, from some of the Disciples themselves: So that, when the Romans left Britain, the Britons were generally Christians. But the Saxons were heathens, till Pope Gregory the Great sent over hither Austin the monk, by whom Ethelbert king of the South-Saxons, and his subjects, were converted to Christianity; and the whole island soon ...
— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X. • Jonathan Swift |
