...He was an Italian aristocrat, and is the earliest pope of the Roman Catholic Church to have received the title "the Great". He is perhaps best known for having met Attila the Hun outside Rome in 452, persuading him to turn back from his invasion of Western Europe. He is also a Doctor of the Church. Read full entry
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- 1.Pope Leo I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Pope Leo I. Reference style. His Holiness. Spoken style. Your Holiness. Religious style ... Pope Leo I, or Pope Saint Leo the Great (ca. ...
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- Saint Leo I (born 4th century, Tuscany? — died Nov. 10, 461, Rome; Western feast day November 10, Eastern feast day February 18) Pope (440
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What impact did Pope Leo X What impact did Pope Leo X
have during his time? Also,
what impact did he have on
life today? Please help me, I
need this for a project and
I'm stuck.
Basically, I'm asking what he
is mainly known for, and how
it helps us now and how it
helped us back then.
PLEASE help me. :D
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Leo X is famous for his selling of indulgences in order to pay for the reconstruction of St. Peter's Basilica, which resulted in Martin Luther's writing of 95 Theses. In time, these Theses would lead to the first major break with the Catholic Church and form the foundation for the Lutheran Church. He arranged the marriage of Lorenzo de' Medici and Madeleine la Tour d'Auvergne, a royal princess of France, whose daughter was the Catherine de' Medici, the future Queen of France. In 1521, he rewarded Henry VIII for writing a book that attacked Martin Luther, Defence of the Seven Sacraments, by naming him Fidei defensor, or Defender of the Faith. |
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What Was Pope Leo X's So, I'm finishing a packet for
AP Euro and I'm stuck on
trying to figure this out. Did
Pope Leo X have an involvement
during the Religious Wars- any
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At the very time of Leo's accession Louis XII of France, in alliance with Venice, was making a determined effort to regain the duchy of Milan, and Leo, after fruitless endeavours to maintain peace, joined the league of Mechlin on 5 April 1513 with the emperor Maximilian I, Ferdinand I of Spain and Henry VIII of England. The French and Venetians were at first successful, but were defeated in June at the Battle of Novara. The Venetians continued the struggle until October. On 9 December the fifth Lateran council, which had been reopened by Leo in April, ratified the peace with Louis XII and officially registered the conclusion of the Pisan schism. While the council was engaged in planning a crusade and in considering the reform of the clergy, a new crisis occurred between the pope and the new king of France, Francis I, an enthusiastic young prince, dominated by the ambition of recovering Milan and the Kingdom of Naples. Leo at once formed a new league with the emperor and the king of Spain, and to ensure English support made Thomas Wolsey a cardinal. Francis entered Italy in August and on 14 September won the battle of Marignano. In October Leo signed an agreement binding him to withdraw his troops from Parma and Piacenza, which had been previously gained at the expense of the duchy of Milan, on condition of French protection at Rome and Florence. The king of Spain wrote to his ambassador at Rome "that His Holiness had hitherto played a double game and that all his zeal to drive the French from Italy had been only a mask"; this reproach seemed to receive some confirmation when Leo held a secret conference with Francis at Bologna in December 1515. The ostensible subjects under consideration were the establishment of peace between France, Venice and the Empire, with a view to an expedition against the Turks, and the ecclesiastical affairs of France. Precisely what was arranged is unknown. During these two or three years of incessant political intrigue and warfare it was not to be expected that the Lateran council should accomplish much. Its three main objectives, the peace of Christendom, the crusade (against the Turks), and the reform of the church, could be secured only by general agreement among the powers, and either Leo or the council, or both, failed to secure such agreement. Its most important achievements were the registration at its eleventh sitting (9 December 1516) of the abolition of the pragmatic sanction, which the popes since Pius II had unanimously condemned, and the confirmation of the concordat between Leo X and Francis I, which was destined to regulate the relations between the French Church and the Holy See until the French Revolution. Leo closed the council on 16 March 1517. It had ended the Pisan schism, ratified the censorship of books introduced by Alexander VI and imposed tithes for a war against the Turks. It raised no voice against the primacy of the pope. |
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Did Pope Leo I copy the With the office of the Pope
being the equivalent of the
Emperor, the college of
Cardinals as the Senate, etc.?
I know that hw was a great
admirer of the structure of
the government of Rome. Can
you please give me references
upon which you base your
opinion?
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His main significance in the Catholic chuirch is as the Pope who "decreed" that the Pope was infallible. It is probable that he did use the structure of the Roman empire as a basis for the structure of the Church - after all he had lived all his life under that system and knew it much better than any other (my only hesitation is saying that he admired the system was that by the time of his reign as Pope the Roman Empire had begun its decline and was corrupt.) |
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