ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 9th of June WELCOME! GREGORY XVI, POPE ⬅️ Saintly Popes - Index Gregory XVI, Pope, (Mauro, or Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari), was born at Belluno, then in the Venetian territory, September 8, 1765; he died at Rome, June 9, 1846. His father, Giovanni Battista, and his mother, Giulia Cesa-Pagani, were both of the minor nobility of the district and the families of both had in former times been prominent in the service of the state. When eighteen, Bartolomeo gave evidence of a religious vocation, and after some opposition on the part of his relations, was clothed in 1783 as a novice in the Camaldolese monastery of San Michele di Murano, taking the name Mauro. Here, three years later, he was solemnly professed, and was ordained priest in 1787. The young monk soon showed signs of unusual intellectual gifts. He devoted himself to the study of philosophy and theology, and was set to teach these to the juniors ...