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The Catholic Church venerates him as a saint and Doctor of the Church. The Orthodox Churches also venerate him as a saint. Gregory was born in Rome around to a family belonging to the aristocracy consisting only of patricians.

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His father, Gordianus, appears to have held the position of regionarius, that is, an official in charge of public order. His mother, named Silvia, was possibly of Sicilian origin and retired to the monastery of Cella Nova following Gregory's decision to make her father's house a cenobium. The family was affluent, with estates in Rome and Sicily, and boasted illustrious ancestors: Gregory himself named Pope Felix III as his ancestor, and kinship relations with Pope Agapitus have been suggested, but these remain uncertain.

At least two brothers are mentioned in the pontiff's letters, one named Palatine, and another referred to simply as germanus, both most likely engaged in public functions. Pope Gregory the Great worked to consolidate Christianity in the Italian peninsula, promoting important initiatives in the field of liturgy. The places and manner of his education are uncertain, but it is possible that Gregory attended a library established by Pontiff Agapitus on the Caelian Hill, thus close to his father's house.

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Further data on his education can be deduced from the pontiff's works, from which his linguistic and rhetorical skills as well as his knowledge of classical authors such as Virgil, Cicero and Seneca emerge. However, he took a condemning attitude toward classical culture, believing that it should be studied only as a tool for understanding and communicating the divine truth of the Holy Scriptures.

His writings also reveal scientific and natural knowledge and, above all, a vast mastery of Roman law. Gregory is thought to have known the Greek language, reinforced, following an initial scholastic training, by his stay in Constantinople as apocrisary to Pope Pelagius II. Gregory undertook the cursus honorum, held the office of praefectus urbi and signed the declaration condemning the Three Chapters of the Bishop of Milan Lorenzo In Pope Pelagius II ordained Gregory deacon to send him, as an apocrisary, to Constantinople for the purpose of pointing out to the emperor the aggressions suffered by the Lombards and asking for military aid.