2023-09-03 02:00:00
Upon accessing the pontificate, Saint Gregory the Great, from Rome, had to watch over his city and Europe in the process of social and political reorganization. The fragmentation of the Old Continent had left the Church alone in terms of sustaining the “unity”, or in any case, of a certain “administrative structure”. Rome looked at Byzantium and Byzantium did not respond.
In this context, Pope Gregory negotiated with kings, nobles, ancestral houses, run-down authorities and the heads of barbarian peoples. The saint was a crucial figure to achieve a certain harmony when the peoples of continental Europe no longer expected the restructuring of the “lost order”.
The ties established by Saint Gregory favored the encounter between different worlds, in the heat of evangelization. In particular, it is worth mentioning his concern for the Anglo-Saxon world (England). The Pope sent missionaries to the British Isles and put Saint Augustine of Canterbury to lead that company.
On the other hand, he allied himself with the monastic orders, since he saw in them the guarantee that the Church would remain solid -there is prayer there-, while, politically, he stopped the expansionist ambitions of the Franks and Lombards.
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