 As early as 722, in a face to face meeting between Pope Gregory II, born and raised in Rome, and Saint Boniface, an Anglo-Saxon, Boniface complained that he found Pope Gregory's Latin speech difficult to understand, a clear sign of the transformation of Vulgar Latin in two regions of western Europe.Although they had become more dissimilar over time, Classical Latin and Vulgar Latin were still viewed as the same language.Similarly, while increasingly divergent, Latin and the Romance Languages in the Early Middle Ages were seen as the same tongue.