Leo the Great (–461)
Author of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume 12: Leo the Great, Gregory the Great
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Works by Leo the Great
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume 12: Leo the Great, Gregory the Great (1964) — Author — 258 copies
What is Peace with God? 1 copy
St. Leo the Great : Letters. 1 copy
Associated Works
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume I Advent Season and Christmas Season) (1974) — Contributor — 100 copies
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume II Lenten Season and Easter Season) (1974) — Contributor — 85 copies
The Liturgy of the Hours According to the Roman Rite (Volume III: The Weeks of the Year 6 - 34) (1974) — Contributor — 65 copies
Witness of the Saints: Patristic Readings in the Liturgy of the Hours (2012) — Contributor — 24 copies
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- Other names
- Pope Leo I
Leo I
Pope Leo the Great
Saint Leo the Great - Birthdate
- c. 400
- Date of death
- 461-11-10
- Burial location
- St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Italy
- Birthplace
- Tuscany, Italy
- Place of death
- Rome, Italy
- Places of residence
- Rome, Italy
- Organizations
- Roman Catholic Church
- Awards and honors
- Doctor of the Church
- Short biography
- Pope Leo I (c. 400 – 10 November 461), also known as Saint Leo the Great, was Pope from 29 September 440 to his death in 461.
He was an Italian aristocrat, and was the first pope to have been called "the Great". He is perhaps best known for having met Attila the Hun in 452 and persuading him to turn back from his invasion of Italy. He is also a Doctor of the Church, most remembered theologically for issuing the Tome of Leo, a document which was foundational to the debates of the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon. The Council of Chalcedon, the fourth ecumenical council, dealt primarily with Christology, and elucidated the orthodox definition of Christ's being as the hypostatic union of two natures—divine and human—united in one person, "with neither confusion nor division". It was followed by a major schism associated with Monophysitism, Miaphysitism and Dyophysitism.
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