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| | BIGpedia - Pope Leo I - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
 | | In 444 Leo laid down in a letter to them the principle that Peter had received the primacy and oversight of the whole Church as a requital of his faith, and that thus all important matters were to be referred to and decided by Rome. | | | Leo enforced his authority in 445 against Dioscurus, Cyril's successor in the patriarchate of Alexandria, insisting that the ecclesiastical practise of his see should follow that of Rome; since Mark, the disciple of Peter and founder of the Alexandrian Church, could have had no other tradition than that of the prince of the apostles. | | | At the "Robber Synod " of Ephesus Leo's representatives delivered the famous "tome" or statement of the faith of the Roman Church in the form of a letter addressed to Flavian, which repeats, in close adherence to Augustine, the formulas of western Christology, without really touching the problem that was agitating the East. |
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| | BIGpedia - Pope Leo I - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
| | In 444 Leo laid down in a letter to them the principle that Peter had received the primacy and oversight of the whole Church as a requital of his faith, and that thus all important matters were to be referred to and decided by Rome. | | | Leo enforced his authority in 445 against Dioscurus, Cyril's successor in the patriarchate of Alexandria, insisting that the ecclesiastical practise of his see should follow that of Rome; since Mark, the disciple of Peter and founder of the Alexandrian Church, could have had no other tradition than that of the prince of the apostles. | | | At the "Robber Synod " of Ephesus Leo's representatives delivered the famous "tome" or statement of the faith of the Roman Church in the form of a letter addressed to Flavian, which repeats, in close adherence to Augustine, the formulas of western Christology, without really touching the problem that was agitating the East. |
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| | Saint Michael Center - Saints |
| | Saint Zachary was spoken of in one of the three canticles of the New Testament, which is known as the "Benedictus." It is recited in the prayers of priest as part of their liturgical worship. | | | Saint Maura was a young Catholic virgin of Constantinople, cruelly martyred for the Faith. | | | Saint Cecilia is one of the most venerated virgin martyrs of the Church. |
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| | Saints of June 12 |
| | Saint Gerebald was bishop of Châlons-sur-Seine from 864 to 885 (Benedictines). | | | When Abbot Saint Paphnutius was trying to discern whether the eremitical life was for him, he met Onuphrius, who had been a hermit for 70 years in the Thebaid of Egypt. | | | Within a short time a church was built there in which his sacred remains were exposed to the veneration of the faithful, and were honored with miracles. |
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| | The Imperium Christianum |
| | Pope Leo retained his position as the spiritual and liturgical head of the Church, with “overlordship of the whole ecclesiastical hierarchy and the right to be the sole judge in matters of faith” (Fichtenau 61). | | | In such a manner, Leo was the spiritual head of the Church and Charles its governor. | | | Pope Leo was willing to endorse an Emperor to protect the Church, but he did not want to become a servant of the Frankish king. |
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| | Saint Leo's Parish - About Us |
| | Saint Leo's Parish is a Roman Catholic community of believers who rejoice in Gospel values and further good works of faith, education, and charity in the city of Leominster and beyond. | | | In the early part of the 19th century, the fledgling Catholic community of Leominster was served by clergy from Saint Bernard's Church, Fitchburg, and by the Bishop of Boston. | | | In 1925, Saint Leo's School opened and it was staffed by the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Fitchburg. |
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| | Santa Susanna |
| | Leo is listed as a saint based on the miracle of his restored eyes and tongue, following the attack on his person in 799, his feast day is June 12. | | | Leo was escorted back to Rome where the Franks began an investigation both of the charges against the pope and the attack upon his person. | | | Leo died on June 12, 816 and was buried in the old Constantinian basilica of St. Peter. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Leo III |
| | Leo III was buried in St. Peter's (12 June, 816), where his relics are to be found along with those of Sts. | | | In their distress the monks turned for help to Leo, as they did when they were maltreated for opposing the arbitrary reinstatement of the priest whom Tarasius had degraded for marrying Constantine to Theodota. | | | Leo was a Roman, the son of Atyuppius and Elizabeth. |
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| | Biography – Pope Leo IV – The Papal Library |
| | Leo deposed from the cardinalate Anastasius, priest of Saint Marcellus, because he had abandoned his parish during five years. | | | Leo built, at a short distance, a new city, but in the course of time it was deserted, and the inhabitants returned to the old Centum Cellae, to which they gave the name of Civita Vecchia (the old city), which it still bears. | | | Leo IV had, in 850, crowned Louis II as emperor, or rather as associate in the empire, and he lived constantly in good understanding with him, as well as with Lothaire, the still living father of Louis. |
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| | SBC - Saint Leo the Great |
| | Saint Leo followed after the glorious Popes: Saints Damasus, Siricius, Anastasius I, Innnocent I, Zosimus, Boniface I, Celestine I and Sixtus III, all of whom, as with one voice, had proclaimed that when they spoke in papal utterance, they spoke through the mouth of the Prince of the Apostles, Peter. | | | The dogmatic letter of Saint Leo is an answer to all the attacks on the Sacred Divinity and Humanity of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Divine Maternity of Mary which grew out of the heresy of Arius. | | | It is said of Pope Saint Leo the Great that he bore in his hands the keys of Peter and the sword of Paul; that he bore them for twenty-one years without haste, without passion, without fear, with the serene dignity of one whose eyes were ever fixed on the Lord Whom he represented. |
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| | CIN - LEO I (THE GREAT) 461 |
| | In all these ways Leo showed himself a great and wise upholder of the office he held, of its authority in matters of doctrine and its right and duty to protect the church from spiritual and, in so far as it is possible, even from physical enemies. | | | In 451 a general council of over six hundred bishops was convened at Chalcedon, and to this gathering Leo's letter on the two-fold nature of our Lord was read. | | | The date of St Leo's birth is not known, nor the place certainly, although it seems probable that it was Rome. |
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| | St. Leo the Great Parish, Lincroft, New Jersey |
| | Leo's primary interest was in maintaining the unity of the church. | | | In 1754, Pope Benedict XIV proclaimed Leo a Doctor of the Church. | | | Saint Leo the Great is one of the most important of the early Popes, guiding the destiny of the church during a time when western civilization was rapidly disintegrating. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Leo III |
| | Leo III was buried in St. Peter's (12 June, 816), where his relics are to be found along with those of Sts. | | | In their distress the monks turned for help to Leo, as they did when they were maltreated for opposing the arbitrary reinstatement of the priest whom Tarasius had degraded for marrying Constantine to Theodota. | | | Leo was a Roman, the son of Atyuppius and Elizabeth. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Leo X |
| | The most important occurrence of Leo's pontificate and that of gravest consequence to the Church was the Reformation, which began in 1517. | | | The magnificent pope was given a simple funeral and not until the reign of Paul III was a monument erected to his memory in the Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva. | | | Leo's attitude towards the imperial succession was influenced primarily by his anxiety concerning the power and independence of the Holy See and the so-called freedom of Italy. |
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| | Biography – Pope Leo IV – The Papal Library |
| | Leo deposed from the cardinalate Anastasius, priest of Saint Marcellus, because he had abandoned his parish during five years. | | | Leo IV governed the Church eight years, three months, and six days. | | | Leo built, at a short distance, a new city, but in the course of time it was deserted, and the inhabitants returned to the old Centum Cellae, to which they gave the name of Civita Vecchia (the old city), which it still bears. |
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| | ST. LEO I, THE GREAT |
| | A deacon in the Church at Rome Leo was absent in Gaul on an important mission for the Emperor when St. Sixtus III died. | | | Leo acted strongly against all heresies, but the dogmatic crisis of his pontificate arose when the Constantinople monk Eutyches and the patriarch of Alexandria, Dioscorus, began to teach that in Christ there is only one nature. | | | There the fathers condemned Eutyches and accepted Leo's letter as the symbol of orthodox belief. |
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| | Einhard on the Coronation of Charlemagne |
| | As Pope Leo [III] was riding from the Lateran in Rome to service in the church of St. Lawrence, called " the Gridiron," he fell into an ambush which the Romans had set for him in the neighborhood of this church. | | | When he appeared and dismounted from his horse, the pope received him with gratitude and thanksgiving and conducted him into the church, while all the people glorified God in hymns of praise. | | | But since no one could be found who was willing to substantiate the charges, the pope, carrying the Gospels in his hand, mounted the pulpit in St. Peter's and before all the people, and in the name of the Holy Trinity, took an oath to clear himself from the crimes imputed to him. |
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| | ST. LEO III |
| | The bishops, of course, refused to try the Pope, but Leo willingly mounted the ambo in St. Peter's and solemnly swore that he was innocent of the charges. | | | Leo used his money as a just steward, to help the poor and to beautify churches. | | | 795- 816 AD On the very day of Hadrian's funeral, December 26, 795, the pious priest Leo was unanimously elected to succeed him. |
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| | ST. LEO III |
| | The bishops, of course, refused to try the Pope, but Leo willingly mounted the ambo in St. Peter's and solemnly swore that he was innocent of the charges. | | | Leo used his money as a just steward, to help the poor and to beautify churches. | | | 795- 816 AD On the very day of Hadrian's funeral, December 26, 795, the pious priest Leo was unanimously elected to succeed him. |
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| | History of the Mass(hist24.htm) |
| | Pope Leo III strove to compliment all the achievements of Charlemagne by following the ideals of his predecessor in refurbishing the Roman churches that had been neglected for so long. | | | On Christmas Day just as Leo was beginning to celebrate the Mass before an overflowing congregation, he approached Charles who had been praying at the tomb of St. Peter. | | | Leo's first act was to inform Charles of his election and continue the rapport built up by his predecessor by sending the Frankish king the keys of Peter's tomb and the banner of Rome. |
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| | Leo III -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | On this occasion Pope Leo III placed a golden crown upon his head and proclaimed him to be emperor of the West, perhaps anointing him with oil to complete the ceremony. | | | But of the popes who have borne this name, the ones who had the greatest impact on their times were Leo I, Leo III, Leo IX, Leo X, and Leo XIII. | | | The reign of Leo IX is memorable for two reasons: the extensive reforms he implemented within the church and his forceful support of papal supremacy, which led to a formal break with the Eastern Orthodox church in 1054. |
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| | Santa Susanna |
| | A similar mosaic can be seen on the right exterior side of the Scala Sancta (or Holy Stairs at Saint John Lateran) which served as the dining hall of Leo III in the 9th century. | | | Christ the Teacher sat in the center of the mosaic and on his right were the figures of Saint Susanna and Saint Felicity, and on his left were the figures of Charlemagne (who visited the church) and Pope Saint Leo who held the church in his hands. | | | It is said the Michelangelo Caravaggio came to the church in 1602 to study the painting before completely his great work the “Martyrdom of Saint Matthew” in the Church of San Luigi della Francese. |
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| | History of the Mass(hist24.htm) |
| | On Christmas Day just as Leo was beginning to celebrate the Mass before an overflowing congregation, he approached Charles who had been praying at the tomb of St. Peter. | | | Leo's first act was to inform Charles of his election and continue the rapport built up by his predecessor by sending the Frankish king the keys of Peter's tomb and the banner of Rome. | | | But Leo was still not out of the woods for his accusers presented their case at the court of Charles accusing the Pope, though falsely, of adultery and perjury. |
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| | Leo III, Saint -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | But of the popes who have borne this name, the ones who had the greatest impact on their times were Leo I, Leo III, Leo IX, Leo X, and Leo XIII. | | | Leo was a cardinal when elected to succeed Pope Adrian I on Dec. 26, 795; he was consecrated the next day. | | | Leo, Latin for “lion,” is the 12th largest constellation, covering about 950 square degrees. |
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| | Saints of May 23 |
| | John combined the enfleshment of the social Gospel with the cure of souls. | | | For several years the bishop was banished but eventually Gregory the Great came to see that he was innocent of Brunhildis's charges and restored him to Vienne. | | | After teaching Scripture, theology, and canon law there, he became prior about 1078 and was elected bishop of Chartres in 1091. |
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| | The Interior of S. Susanna |
| | In the year 799, Saint Pope Leo III, who had been the cardinal priest or pastor of Santa Susanna before his election as pope, had the church rebuilt. | | | The pope was also in the mosaic holding the church in his hands, together with the Emperor Charlemagne, who had also visited the church, when he came to Rome to be crowned by Pope Leo. | | | The third or present church was built between 1685 and 1699 by Pope Sixtus V. He wanted to rebuild this section of Rome and this church near the old Baths of Diocletian was to be his masterpiece. |
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| | Henry George, Dr. Edward McGlynn, and Pope Leo XIII |
| | To Leo's critics, it meant "You will eat bye and bye, in that glorious land beyond the sky; work and pray, live on hay, there'll be pie in the sky when you die" (words attrib. | | | Leo, born Vincenzo Pecci, was of the minor nobility, and considerable wealth. | | | In Rerum, Leo lumped George as a "socialist," and treated him anonymously as an "upholder of obsolete notions," and one of "a few dissidents," a "mere utopianist whose ideas were rejected by the common opinion of the human race." "The thoughts of Henry George... |
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| | December 24, 1999 - January 2, 2000 THIS DAY IN HISTORY: (dec24eve.htm) |
| | He would go on to become a cardinal priest and the 209th successor of Peter on April 8, 1455 as Pope Callistus III He would be responsible for the growth of Christianity in Scandinavia. | | | 329 A.D. Birth of Saint Gregory of Nazianzen at Nazianzus, Cappodocia. | | | This was one of the first decrees that recognized the growing carbuncle of communism. |
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| | The splendor of truth - The Washington Times: Commentary - April 06, 2005 |
| | Pope Leo III may have been forced to anoint Charlemagne as Roman Emperor, but by doing so he also cemented the notion that even kings were answerable to a higher authority. | | | In the secular vernacular, the pope was a "social conservative" -- even, shudder, a "theocrat" -- because he opposed many things secular liberals favor: state-supplied condoms, state-funded abortion, euthanasia, etc. I'm not stealing an intellectual base here. | | | The terrified ones were most famously in Moscow when they realized that his admonition, "Be not afraid," was the most devastating thing a pope from a captive nation could say to the millions of people terrified into submission by Communism. |
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| | Pope Leo the Great |
| | Leo must have achieved eminence early, for even then he corresponded with Archbishop Cyril of Alexandria,[1] and Cassian dedicated his treatise against Nestorius to him.[2] In 440 Leo was sent to Gaul to try to make peace between the imperial generals, Aetius and Albinus. | | | Leo was now called upon to deal with difficulties in the East far greater than any he had so far encountered in the West. | | | Leo wrote back a long refutation of this doctrine and described the measures he had taken against the Manichaeans in Rome. |
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