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100 0 $aLeo$bI,$cPope,$d-461.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83033219
240 10 $aSermons.$lEnglish
245 10 $aSermons /$cSt. Leo the Great ; translated by Jane Patricia Freeland, Agnes Josephine Conway.
260 $aWashington, DC :$bThe Catholic University of America Press,$c1996.
263 $a9510
300 $axii, 436 pages ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aFathers of the church ;$vv. 93
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. ix-xii) and index.
505 00 $tHis Elevation to the See of Peter --$tAnnual Collections --$tDays of Fast in December --$tChristmas --$tEpiphany --$tDays of Fast in Lent --$tLenten Sermon on the Transfiguration --$tPassion of the Lord --$tAscension --$tPentecost --$tFeast of Sts. Peter and Paul --$tCommemorating Alaric's Invasion of Rome --$tMartyrdom of the Maccabees --$tFeast of St. Lawrence --$tDays of Fast in September --$tOn the Beatitudes --$tAgainst Eutyches.
520 $aAs the vestiges of the Roman political machine began to collapse in the fifth century A.D., the towering figure of Pope St. Leo the Great came into relief amid the rubble. Sustained by an immutable doctrine transcending institutions and cultures, the Church alone emerged from the chaos. Eventually, the Roman heritage became assimilated into Christianity and ceased to have a life of its own.
520 8 $aIt would be practically impossible to understand this monumental transition from the Roman world to Christendom without taking into account the pivotal role played by Leo the Great. His sermons provide invaluable data for the social historian. It was Leo - and not the emperor - who went out to confront Attila the Hun. It was Leo who once averted and on another occasion mitigated the ravages of barbarian incursions.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aAs significant as his contribution was to history, Leo had an even greater impact on theology. When partisans of the monophysite heresy had through various machinations predetermined the outcome of a council held at Ephesus in 450, Leo immediately denounced it as a latrocinium (robbery) rather than a concilium (council).
520 8 $aA year later - with cries of "Peter has spoken through Leo!" - the ecumenical Council of Chalcedon, a pillar of Catholic Christianity, adopted in its resounding condemnation of monophysitism the very language formulated by Leo. Pope Leo also developed the most explicit and detailed affirmations known up to that time of the prerogatives enjoyed by successors of St. Peter. Many theological principles find their clearest, and certainly their most eloquent, expression in his sermons.
650 0 $aSermons, Latin$vTranslations into English.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111554
610 20 $aCatholic Church$vSermons.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85021172
700 1 $aFreeland, Jane Patricia,$d1910-2004.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85282529
700 1 $aConway, Agnes Josephine,$d1921-2002.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95052685
830 0 $aFathers of the church ;$vv. 93.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42011381
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