In 1580 he commissioned artists, including Ignazio Danti, to complete works to decorate the Vatican and commissioned The Gallery of Maps. Print. P. J. Corish, "The origins of Catholic nationalism", part 8, vol. Gregory also transformed the Dominican studium founded in the 13th century at Rome into the College of St. Thomas in 1580, as recommended by the Council of Trent. Why Famous: Gregory was the head of the Catholic Church for thirteen years, but his best-known move was the creation of the Gregorian calendar, which remains in use as the internationally accepted civilian calendar to this day. Many historians have attributed this to the influence and backing of the Spanish King. As a result, the date of the vernal equinox had slowly, over the course of 13 centuries, slipped to 10 March, while the computus (calculation) of the date of Easter still followed the traditional date of 21 March. His last words were: "I have loved justice and hated iniquity; therefore, I [now] die in exile." https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pope_Gregory_VII&oldid=5776341, Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference, Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. Upon the death of Pope Pius V (1566–1572), the conclave chose Cardinal Boncompagni, who assumed the name of Gregory XIII in homage to the great reforming Pope, Gregory I (590–604), surnamed the Great. Great Britain and its American colonies adopted the reformed calendar in 1752, where Wednesday, 2 September 1752 was immediately followed by Thursday, 14 September 1752; they were joined by the last Protestant holdout, Sweden, on 1 March 1753. He formed a lasting and close relationship with the Spanish King, which aided his foreign policy aims as Pope. (1838).

Clearwater, Fl: Clearwater Christian College, 2010. [2], Pope Leo IX raised Hildebrand to the rank of Cardinal in 1049. Gregory XIII was a generous patron of the recently formed Society of Jesus throughout Europe, for which he founded many new colleges. [citation needed]. Clavius verified this phenomenon.

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He appointed his illegitimate son Giacomo,[a] born to his mistress at Bologna before his papacy, castellan of Sant'Angelo and Gonfalonier of the Church; Venice, anxious to please the Pope, enrolled his son among its nobles, and Philip II of Spain appointed him general in his army. In order to raise funds for his endeavors, Gregory confiscated a large proportion of the houses and properties throughout the states of the Church. He later taught jurisprudence for some years, and his students included notable figures such as Cardinals Alexander Farnese, Reginald Pole and Charles Borromeo. Formation of clergy and promotion of the arts and sciences, Formation of clergy and promotion of the arts and sciences, Ugo Boncompagni had Giacomo legitimated on 5 July 1548 by the. Gregory XIII was visited by the Tenshō embassy of Japan, becoming the first Pope to have done so. Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Hildebrand (birth name); Ildebrando di Soana (Italian birth name); Gregorius Septimus (Italian papal name). Much of the populace bitterly opposed this reform; they feared it was an attempt by landlords to cheat them out of a week and a half's rent.