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Also Known As Gratianus
Born Before 1101 • Italy
Died Before 1159 • Bologna? • Italy
Subjects Of Study canon law
Saint Celestine V
pope
Pope Innocent IV
Innocent IV
pope
Gregory IX consecrating the chapel of St. Gregory, detail of a fresco, 13th century; in the lower church of Sacro Speco, Subiaco, Italy
Gregory IX
pope
Vacarius
Roman law scholar
St. Anselm of Canterbury
St. Anselm of Canterbury
archbishop and philosopher
St. Benedict of Nursia
St. Benedict
Italian monk
Pius VII
pope
Gerard, St.
St. Gerard
Venetian monk
St. Romuald of Ravenna
Roman Catholic ascetic
Ambrose Of Camaldoli
Italian translator
Adeodatus II
pope
St. Basil, detail of a mosaic, 12th century; in the Palatine Chapel, Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
St. Basil the Great
bishop of Caesarea
Hincmar of Reims
French theologian
Saint Raymond of Peñafort
Saint Raymond of Peñafort
Spanish friar
John IV of Odzun
Armenian Orthodox catholicos
Hugh of Saint-Cher
French cardinal
Guillaume Durand
French scholar
Dionysius Exiguus
canonist
Saint Nicodemus the Hagiorite
Greek monk
Matthew Blastares
Greek theologian and scholar