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Martyn, John R. C., “Pope Gregory the Great and the Irish”, Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, 1 (2005): 65–83.

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“Pope Gregory the Great and the Irish”
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Pope Gregory the Great’s apparently close links with Columban and the Irish clergy between 592 and 601 are revealed through five of his letters: 2.43 (July 592), an encyclical sent to the Irish clergy, almost certainly including Columban; 4.18 (March 594) about an Irish priest valuable to the Pope in Rome; 5.17 (November 594) about Columban’s reception of Gregory’s ‘Pastoral Care’; 9.11 (October 600) praising Columban; and 11.52 (July 601) about an Irish Bishop Quiritus. My version of Columban’s letter to the Pope follows, with brief analysis of his irony, word-play and literary style. It shows how the Irishman’s erudite and very rhetorical letter would have tickled the Pope’s fancy rather than offend him.
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Dennis Groenewegen
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