Leo came from a modest family in southern Italy. He was elected to the office of St. Peter unanimously by the clergy of Rome following the death of Pope Hadrian. The papacy had dramatically ...

Celestine’s successor Pope Sixtus III, the Roman Emperor Valentinian III commissioned Leo to travel to the region of Gaul and settle a dispute between military and civil officials. Pope Sixtus ...

FLORENCE, Ala. (WHNT) – The University of North Alabama announced Friday that the school lion, Leo III, has died. According to the school, Leo died after a brief illness. He was the third lion ...

Pope Leo X was born Giovanni de Medici in 1475 and raised in Italy's most culturally sophisticated city, Florence, as part of the prestigious de' Medici family, renowned patrons of the arts ...

0800 – Charlemagne was crowned first Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by Pope Leo III. 1066 – William the Conqueror was crowned ...