Optional Memorial
Saint Gregory VII
- Feast day
- May 25
- Origin
- Italian
Life
Gregory VII (c. 1015-1085), born Hildebrand in Tuscany, was one of the great reforming popes, fighting simony, clerical corruption, and lay investiture. His conflict with Emperor Henry IV over the right to appoint bishops defined the Investiture Controversy, and after Rome fell to the emperor's forces he withdrew to Salerno, where he died in exile in 1085.
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