query: religion thomas tallis
supports: Pope Gregory XIII (7 January 1502  10 April 1585), born Ugo Boncompagni, was Pope of the Catholic Church from 13 May 1572 to his death in 1585. He is best known for commissioning and being the namesake for the Gregorian calendar, which remains the internationally accepted civil calendar to this day. The Julian calendar, proposed by Julius Caesar in 46 BC (708 AUC), was a reform of the Roman calendar. It took effect on 1 January 45 BC (AUC 709) (shortly before the Roman conquest of Egypt), by edict. It was the predominant calendar in the Roman world, most of Europe, and in European settlements in the Americas and elsewhere, until it was refined and gradually replaced by the Gregorian calendar, promulgated in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII. The Julian calendar gains against the mean tropical year at the rate of one day in 128 years. For the Gregorian the figure is one day in 3,030 years. The difference in the average length of the year between Julian (365.25 days) and Gregorian (365.2425 days) is 0.002%. Thomas Tallis ( c. 1505 -- 23 November 1585 by the Julian calendar still then in use in England ) was an English composer who occupies a primary place in anthologies of English choral music , and is considered one of England 's greatest composers . He is honoured for his original voice in English musicianship . No contemporary portrait of Tallis survives : that painted by Gerard Vandergucht ( illustration ) , dates from 150 years after Tallis died , and there is no reason to suppose that it is a likeness . In a rare existing copy of his black letter signature , the composer spelled his last name `` Tallys . ''
candidates: catholic catholic church
answer: catholic church