ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 29th of November CLEMENT IV., POPE ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index Guido le Gros was born at Saint-Gilles on the Rhone, November 23, year unknown; elected at Perugia February 5, 1265; he died at Viterbo, November 29, 1268. After the death of Urban IV (October 2, 1264), the cardinals, assembled in conclave at Perugia, discussed for four months the momentous question whether the Church should continue the war to the end against the House of Hohenstaufen by calling in Charles of Anjou, the youngest brother of St Louis of France, or find some other means of securing the independence of the papacy. No other solution offering itself, the only possible course was to unite upon the Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina, by birth a Frenchman and a subject of Charles. Guido Le Gros was of noble extraction. When his mother died, his father, the knight Foulquois, entered a Carthusian monastery where he ended a saintly life. Guido marr...