Note 922 — Chapter XXI · TRACES OF THE SABBATH DURING THE DARK AGES.

Bower says of Gregory: “He was a man of most extraordinary parts, of an unbounded ambition, of a haughty and imperious temper, of resolution and courage incapable of yielding to the greatest difficulties, perfectly acquainted with the state of the western churches, as well as with the different interests of the Christian princes.”—History of the Popes, vol. ii. p. 378.