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This chapter explores Gregory IX’s involvement in external mission, that is, conversion efforts among non-Christians, and internal mission, that is, mission among Christians weak in faith or Christians who did not belong to the Latin Christian Church. Analysing some of his central letters about mission, including the highly influential letter Cum hora undecima of February 1235, it discusses Gregory’s perception of such ventures, the role of the mendicants, with whom the pope had a long association, and the impact of previous papal missionary involvement, particularly under his predecessor, Honorius III. |
