Pope Saint Gregory III - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

Pope Saint Gregory III - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online



Pope Saint Gregory III, Roman Catholic Priest and head of the Catholic Church from 11 February 731 to his death in 741. His pontificate, like that of his predecessor, was disturbed by the iconoclastic controversy in the Byzantine Empire, and by the ongoing advance of the Lombards, in which he invoked the intervention of Charles Martel, Feastday Dec. 10

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