Daily Medieval

One of the anecdotes about Pope Gregory "the Great" that is most often repeated is how it came about that he sent missionaries to...

Saint Gregory the Great (c.540 - 12 March 604) started as Pope Gregory I in 590. Earlier than that he started as a prefect of Rome, though ...

Theodoric as King of Italy did not just want to be king of the land; rather, he wanted to be seen as king or custodian of or successor to th...

Commentary on Job being given from Pope Gregory to Bishop Leander of Seville St. Isidore of Seville (c. 560 – 4 April 636) has been ment...

The Black Death, estimated to have killed up to one-third of Europeans from 1347-1351, caused changes in society that we cannot imagine. Som...

Like finding the origin of Mother Goose in Bertrada of Laon , or finding the origin of "Ring Around the Rosie" in the Bubonic P...

His feast day is Leap Day, so he's celebrated only every 4 years. He is revered in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic ...