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St. Gregory the Great Gregory the Great Vatican City: St. Peter's Basilica, altar of St. Gregory the Great Copperplate engraving by Adrian Collaert showing Saint Gregory I, or Gregory the Great, seated in papal robes and tiara, holding a staff, with symbolic figures at his feet. Skulls depicting and explaining the seven deadly sins.
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Christ as Ruler, with the Apostles and Evangelists (represented by the beasts). The female figures are believed to be either Santa Pudenziana and Santa Praxedes or symbols of the Jewish and Gentile churches. Mosaic in the apse of Santa Pudenziana, Rome,A
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St. Gregory the Great
Pope Gregory I (the Great) depicted in a stained glass window at St. Michael & All...
© Fr James Bradley (CC BY 2.0)
Gregory the Great
Pope Gregory the Great receiving information from the Holy Spirit, represented as...
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Vatican City: St. Peter's Basilica, altar of St. Gregory the Great
Altar of St. Gregory the Great in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. Gregory's body...
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Pope Gregory I
St. Gregory the Great, copperplate engraving.
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Seven deadly sins
The seven deadly sins of Roman Catholic theology are pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony,...
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