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Today (10. November) is the feast day of:
Leo I, pope (d. 461). An activist pope who promoted the doctrine of Petrine succession and who vigorously championed his views of proper Christian belief, L. (a.k.a. Leo the Great), L. persuaded Attila the Hun not to attack Rome in 452 but was unable to prevent the Vandal sack under Gaiseric in 455. Doctrinally, he is most remembered as the author of the Tome of Leo, one of the founding documents of Chalcedonian orthodoxy.
Here's a view of a leaf from a fragmentary seventh- or eighth-century North Italian manuscript of L.'s sermons (Universitätsbibliothek Salzburg, M II 274_:
http://www.ubs.sbg.ac.at/sosa/Fragmente/MII274.jpg
Here's L. as depicted in the later tenth- or early eleventh-century Menologion of Basil II:
http://tinyurl.com/2hty26
And here is he is meeting Attila in an illumination from the fourteenth-century Hungarian _Képes Krónika_ (_Illustrated Chronicle_):
http://tinyurl.com/2rkma8
Here's the same scene as imagined by Raphael in the Vatican's Stanza di Eliodoro (1514):
http://tinyurl.com/2u3odh
Another view (expandable) occurs near the bottom of this page:
http://tinyurl.com/2sp2xx
At Capena (RM) in Lazio the originally eighth- or ninth century Chiesetta di San Leone is dedicated to today's L. There's an illustrated account here:
http://www.lcnet.it/reticiviche/capena/chiese.html
At Castellana Grotte (BA) in Apulia a church dedicated to St. Magnus (presumably M. of Anagni, widely venerated in southern Italy) was in 1383 replaced by one dedicated to L., another Magnus. Since largely rebuilt, it is now the town's principal church. The belltower is medieval in part and houses the Late Gothic fresco of the Annunciation shown on this page:
http://www.viacastellana.it/lechiese/SanLeoneMagno.htm
Best,
John Dillon
(last year's post lightly revised
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