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Leo III, Pope Saint Reigned from 26 December 795 to 12 June 816. Born and died in Rome, Italy . A cardinal -priest. When consecrated, he sent Charlemagne the keys of the confession of Saint Peter and the standard of the city to show that he regarded him as the protector of the church. From … Continue reading “Leo III, Pope Saint”

Leo III Pope, who brought about the elevation of the Frankish king to the position of emperor of the West, and thus relieved the Recman pontificate of further subjection to the Greek emperors, was a native of the Eternal City, and was elected after the death of Adrian 1, Dec. 25, 795, Immediately after his … Continue reading “Leo III”

Leo II, Pope Saint Reigned from 17 August 682 to 28 June 683. Born in Sicily; died in Rome. He confirmed the Acts of the Sixth cumenical Council and condemned Pope Honorius I, not for teaching heresy, but for neglecting to oppose it. He secured from Emperor Constantine Pogonatus a revocation of the edict of … Continue reading “Leo II, Pope Saint”

Leo II Pope, was born at Cedelle, in Sicily, in the early part of the 7th century. He became first canon regular, then cardinal priest, and finally pope, as successor of Agatho. Although his predecessor had died in January of the same year, he was installed as late as August, 682, by the emperor Constantine … Continue reading “Leo II”

Leo I, the Great Leo (5) I., the Great, saint, bp. of Rome, a.d. 440-461. We know but little of him before his papacy. He himself and Prosper of Aquitaine call Rome his “patria” (Prosp. Chron., Patr. Lat. li. 599; Leo Mag. Ep. xxxi. 4, p. 85, Migne). His birth must have been about the … Continue reading “Leo I, the Great”

Leo I, Pope Saint (Latin: leo, lion) Doctor of the Church . Reigned from 440 to 461; died in Rome. A deacon , he was sent to Gaul as mediator by Emperor Valentinian III. Elected when the Western Empire was disintegrating and heresy rife, his chief aim was to sustain church unity. To gain this … Continue reading “Leo I, Pope Saint”

Leo I, emperor Leo (1) I., emperor (surnamed the Great, the Thracian, and the Butcher), born c. 400 in the country of the Bessi in Thrace, proclaimed emperor Feb. 7, 457, and crowned by Anatolius, patriarch of Constantinople, being the first Christian sovereign to receive his crown from the hands of a priest. Immediately upon … Continue reading “Leo I, emperor”

Leo I (the Great), Pope (Reigned 440-61). Place and date of birth unknown; died 10 November, 461. Leo’s pontificate, next to that of St. Gregory I, is the most significant and important in Christian antiquity. At a time when the Church was experiencing the greatest obstacles to her progress in consequence of the hastening disintegration … Continue reading “Leo I (the Great), Pope”

Leo I saint and pope, surnamed the Great, noted as the real founder of the papacy, was born about the year 390, though the exact date is not ascertained. We have also no precise information as to his birthplace; for while the liber pontificalis describes him as a Tuscan,. and names Quintianus as his father, … Continue reading “Leo I”

Leo, Heinrich a famous German historian, was born at Rudolstadt, March 19, 1799. He studied at Breslau and Jena, and commenced his academical career at Erlangen in 1820. In 1824 he was at Berlin, accepted a call to Halle in 1830, and died April 24, 1878. Leo was orthodox in religion, and conservative in politics, … Continue reading “Leo, Heinrich”