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Pope Leo I, Saint Leo the Great Italian: Papa Leone I, San Leone Magno, Latin: Papa Leo I, Saint Leo Magnus
Birthdate:	circa 390
Birthplace:	Volterra or Anghiari, Tuscany, Western Roman Empire
Death:	November 10, 461 (66-75) Rome, Western Roman Empire
Place of Burial:	(remains are now under the altar of Chapel Madonna della Colonna in St Peter's Basilica), Rome, Italy
Immediate Family:	Son of Quintianus

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About Pope Leo I, Saint Leo the Great

Pope Leo I also known as Saint Leo the Great, was Pope from 29 September 440 and died in 461. Pope Benedict XVI said that Leo's papacy "...was undoubtedly one of the most important in the Church's history."

He was a Roman 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 a major foundation 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.

About Papa Leone I, San Leone Magno (italiano)

Leone I, detto anche Leone Magno (Toscana, 390 circa – Roma, 10 novembre 461), è stato il 45º vescovo di Roma e Papa della Chiesa cattolica. È venerato come santo dalla Chiesa cattolica e dalla Chiesa ortodossa. Il suo pontificato va dal 29 settembre 440 alla sua morte.

Il pontificato di Leone, come quello di Gregorio I, fu il più significativo e importante dell'antichità cristiana. In un periodo in cui la Chiesa stava sperimentando grandi ostacoli al suo progresso in conseguenza della rapida disintegrazione dell'Impero romano d'Occidente, mentre l'oriente era profondamente agitato da controversie dogmatiche, questo papa guidò il destino della Chiesa romana.

About Papa Leo I, Saint Leo Magnus (Latin)

Leo I Magnus fuit papa (440–461), doctor ecclesiae agnotus.

Tusciae natus, Romam migravit, et ibi ordinatus est in unum ex septem diaconis urbanis. Iam diaconus muneribus magni momenti est functus, legatus imperialis in Galliam.

Reversus, electus est in Summum Pontificem, et strenue laboravit pro unitate et orthodoxia Ecclesiae. Haereticos Pelagianos Aquileiae fidem confiteri constrinxit, Manichaeos investigavit et suppressit. In Gallia et universalem ecclesiam disciplinam ecclesiae et auctoritatem Romae defendit, stabilitatem in mundo per imperium declinantem turbato. Contra errorem monophysitorum scripsit Tomum ad Flavianum, quod clare praesentavit duas naturas Christi in una persona. Stabilitatem Romae non tantum per opera ecclesiastica, sed etiam saecularia defendit . Ex urbe exiens Attilae Romam prementi occurrit. Milites secum non portavit, sed auctoritate divina Attila ab urbe est pulsus. Plurimos scripsit Leo sermones et epistulas, quorum multi nobis sunt traditi, exemplaria Latinitatis primi gradus.

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390	390	Birth of Pope Leo I, Saint Leo the Great Volterra or Anghiari, Tuscany, Western Roman Empire
461	November 10, 461 Age 71	Death of Pope Leo I, Saint Leo the Great Rome, Western Roman Empire
????		Burial of Pope Leo I, Saint Leo the Great Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano, (remains are now under the altar of Chapel Madonna della Colonna in St Peter's Basilica), Rome, Italy

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