He was born in Tuscia and was a deacon of the Church of Rome. In 440, Leo was sent by Empress Galla Placidia to pacify Gaul. A few months later, Pope Sixtus III dies, and Leo, his advisor, succeeds him. Pope Leo, the 45th in the history of the Church, began his Petrine ministry on September 29, 440. He was defender and promoter of the Primacy of Rome, and is Doctor of the Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His pontificate lasted 21 years and broke several records, according to the Vatican saints\u201c calendar. First Bishop of Rome to bear the name of Leo. The first to be called \u201dMagno\u201c, whose preaching -almost 100 sermons and 150 letters- have come down to us. One of the two Popes (the other is St. Gregory the Great) who received, by decision of Benedict XIV (1754), the title of \u201dDoctor of the Church\".\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to historians, Leo the Great is also the first Pope to be buried, after his death on November 10, 461, inside the Vatican Basilica. His relics are preserved in St. Peter's, in the Chapel of the \u201cMadonna of the Column,\u201d the Vatican website adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 452 AD, Attila's Huns conquered and sacked the cities of Aquileia, Padua and Milan. Near Mantua, on the Mincio River, Pope Leo the Great leads a delegation from Rome, meets Attila and dissuades him from continuing his invasion. Legend has it that Attila withdraws after having seen, behind Pope Leo, the Apostles Peter and Paul<\/a>, armed with swords.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Three years later, in 455, the \u201cPope Magnus\u201d stopped the Vandals of Africa at the gates of Rome. The city is sacked, but not burned. The Basilicas of St. Peter, St. Paul and St. John remained standing, where a large part of the population found refuge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n St. Leo the Great has also gone down in history for promoting the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon (today Kadik\u00f6y, in Turkey), which recognizes and affirms the union in Christ of the two natures - human and divine. \u201cThus the heresy of Eutychius, who denied the human essence of the Son of God, was rejected,\u201d he wrote. Vatican News<\/a>. When his document was read to the 350 Council Fathers, there was acclamation: \u201cPeter has spoken through the mouth of Leo, Leo has taught according to piety and truth\u201d.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Naci\u00f3 en la Tuscia y fue di\u00e1cono de la Iglesia de Roma. En el a\u00f1o 440, Le\u00f3n es enviado por la emperatriz Galla Placidia a pacificar Galia. Pocos meses despu\u00e9s, muere el Papa Sixto III, y le sucede Le\u00f3n, su consejero. El Papa Le\u00f3n, el 45 de la historia de la Iglesia, comenz\u00f3 su ministerio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2425,"featured_media":54967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[549,548],"tags":[2709],"class_list":["post-54965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evangelizacion","category-foco","tag-san-leon-magno","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.omnesmag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Inspires the Council of Chalcedon<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n