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Saint Gregory the Great: thinking himself unworthy to be Pope, he retires to a cave and studies the scriptures, but churchmen come to persuade him to return to Rome. Engraving by P.P. Moles, 1769, after C. van Loo.

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Beauvais, Charles-Nicolas-Dauphin de, 1730-1785.

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Saint Gregory the Great: thinking himself unworthy to be Pope, he retires to a cave and studies the scriptures, but churchmen come to persuade him to return to Rome. Engraving by P.P. Moles, 1769, after C. van Loo.