Nov. 10 is the Roman Catholic Church’s liturgical memorial of the fifth-century Pope Saint Leo I, known as “St. Leo the Great,” whose involvement in the fourth ecumenical council helped ...

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 ...

Thus Leo held firmly that everything he did and said as Pope for the administration of the Church represented Christ, the head of the Mystical Body, and St Peter, in whose place Leo acted. Pope St Leo ...

Pope. Born in Rome probably, in the 5th century ... Ninety-six of his sermons and 432 of his letters survive. St Leo was declared a Doctor of the Church in 1754.

He celebrated his first Mass in the Church of St. Anne of the Carpenters ... most notably under his successor, Pope Leo XIII. Among the most outstanding pastoral actions or measures of Pius IX’s ...

And this cannot be the work either of a single man, as the pope - but it must be that of the whole world" (Martin Luther) Pope Leo X was born ... build the basilica of St Peter's out of his ...

And this cannot be the work either of a single man, as the pope - but it must be that of the whole world" (Martin Luther) Pope Leo X was born ... build the basilica of St Peter's out of his ...

The coffin is hoisted up in order to be placed in a temporary repository in a wall above a door, where it remains until the pope's suceessor dies Fig. 46 - Funeral of his late Holiness Pope Pius IX., ...