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Feast day: 3 September
Roman prefect turned monk and then pope, Gregory fed a starving city, negotiated with the Lombards, reformed the liturgy and chant that bear his name, and sent Augustine of Canterbury to convert the English.
Feast day: 22 October
Karol Wojtyła, the Polish pope of twenty-seven years who defended human dignity against totalitarianism, travelled to 129 countries and taught the Church a theology of the body and of divine mercy.
Feast day: 29 June
The fisherman Jesus renamed Peter — the rock — who denied his Lord, was forgiven, led the apostles, and was martyred in Rome.