Yes some of you over there like to rely on exaggeration as an attack-tactic, but in this instance it isn’t an exaggeration. You keep calling Gregorius a hero, but that isn’t an exaggeration.
Gregorius & his astronomers saved the Julian Calendar when they restored it’s original seasonal positioning, & improved the leap year rule to keep it that way. Gregorio sounds like an Italianization. But Latin was official in the Catholic Church. He didn’t call himself Gregory. His official church name was Gregorius. Though we could call every country & city by its earliest known ancient name, it’s a bit different with a person’s name. How did he officially refer to himself? On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 12:33 AM Frank King <f...@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear Michael, > > I am most grateful to you for pointing out > an error in my message. I referred to: > > > ... your hero Pope Gregory III > > and you correctly commented: > > > I doubt that he called himself Gregory... > > Quite so, BUT you missed a MUCH more serious > error. He was neither Gregory III nor > Gregorius III. I omitted the X from XIII. > Many apologies for that. > > > His name was Gregorius. > > Hmmm. This needs qualifying... > > His tomb carries the inscription: > > GREGORIO XIII PONT.MAX. > > This expands to: > > GREGORIO XIII PONTIFEX MAXIMUS > > I have to admit to anglicizing names for > this list and would write 'Rome' rather > than 'Roma' despite the latter being the > correct Latin and Italian. > > Accordingly, your hero is Pope Gregory XIII > to me, at least when I remember to key in > the X :-) > > Very best wishes > Frank > > >
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