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What part did Gregory the Great play in the rise of the Catholic Church?
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Pope St. Gregory I the Great (589-603), started as a Benedictine monk, and ended up being the greatest of the Popes during the Age of Faith (known as the "Dark Ages" to seculars and protestants). Pope St. Gregory send St. Augustine to England to convert the island. St. Augustine baptized King Ethelbert (ca. 590-616) and founded the see of Canterbury. Pope St. Gregory condemned forced conversions. He came to be designed (along with Sts. Jerome, Ambrose, and Augustine) as one of the four founding doctors (teachers) of the Western Church. He was the first to use the title "servants of the servants of God", and emphasized principles of conversion as the primary purpose of penance and other principals in his book Pastoral Care. He gave full expression to the doctrine of Purgatory, including the Mass as a sacrifice which could be offered on behalf of deceased souls. He articulated the distinction between the active and contemplative life that became fundamental to Catholic spirituality, designating contemplation as superior but insisting that a life of charity toward others, of fidelity to divinely ordained responsibilities, is a prerequisite.
extracted from History of the Catholic Churchfrom the Apostolic Age to the Third Millennium, by James Hitchcock, Imprimatur: The Most Reverend Edward Rice, © 2012 by Ignatius Press, San Francisco.
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