Leo the Great
Leo the Great was pope from 440 to 461, at a time when the Western empire was falling apart. A pope of immense authority and clarity, he did more than anyone to define the classic doctrine of Christ: his Tome, sent to the Council of Chalcedon in 451, taught that one and the same Christ is fully God and fully man in one person, and the council fathers acclaimed it as the voice of Peter. He is remembered too for riding out in 452 to meet Attila the Hun and persuading him to spare the city of Rome.
“O God, who didst fight against the enemies of thy Sacred Humanity, and of thy Church by the words and deeds of Saint Leo, thy Bishop: we beseech thee to grant; that by the brightness of his writings, we may be enabled to walk in the paths of his virtues.”
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