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Gregory was the son of two saints, Gregory the Elder and Nonna, and the brother of two more saints, Caesar and Gorgonius. The younger Gregory is the most famous of the family, primarily for his theological writings and his fight against the Arian heresy. He promised his life to God at a young age, during a violent storm on board a ship bound for Athens. In Athens, he became good friends with the future St. Basil the Great and encountered the future Emperor Julian the Apostate. Gregory wished to be a monk, but reluctantly became a priest in obedience to his father, who was himself bishop of Nazianzus. The younger Gregory successfully helped his father oppose Arianism in the diocese, and he became a bishop himself around the year 370. Eventually, he was made Patriarch of Constantinople, a city he in fact detested, where he fought even fiercer battles against the Arian heresy, facing conflict with fellow bishops, and even beatings from angry crowds, once orthodoxy clearly had the upper hand. Finally, Gregory gratefully retired to live his last few years in the solitude he had always preferred, dying in the year of Our Lord 390. A Father and Doctor of the Church, he is considered a patron of poets.
AT Nazianzus, the birthday of St. Gregory, bishop and doctor of the church, surnamed the Theologian, because of his remarkable knowledge of divinity. At Constantinople, he restored the Catholic faith, which was fast waning, and repressed the rising heresies.
At Rome, St. Hermas, mentioned by the apostle St. Paul in the epistle to the Romans. Generously sacrificing himself, he became an offering acceptable to God, and adorned with virtues took his departure for the heavenly kingdom.
In Persia, three hundred and ten holy martyrs.
At Caglio, on the Flaminian road, the passion of St. Gerontius, bishop of Cervia.
In the castle of Windisch, the decease of St. Beatus, confessor.
At Constantinople, the translation of the apostle St. Andrew and the evangelist St. Luke, out of Achaia, and of Timothy, disciple of the blessed apostle Paul, from Ephesus. The body of St. Andrew, long after, was conveyed to Amalfi, where it is honored by the pious concourse of the faithful. From his tomb continually issues a liquid which heals diseases.
At Rome, also, the translation of St. Jerome, priest and doctor of the Church, from Bethlehem of Juda, to the basilica of St. Mary of the manger.
At Bari, in Apulia, the translation likewise of the holy bishop Nicholas, from Myra, a town of Lycia.
℣. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
℟. Thanks be to God.