At 12:24 29/04/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Today, 11 April, is the feast of ...
>
>Leo the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church (461) - Butler writes: "The
>sagacity of Leo I, his successful defence of the Catholic faith against
>heresy, as well as his political intervention with Attila the Hun and
>Genseric the Vandal, raised the prestige of the Holy See to
>unprecedented heights and earned for him the title of "the Great", a
>distinction accorded by posterity to only two other popes." (Dear
>list-members can you name those two other popes?)
I believe this question arose once before. Gregory I would of course be
one; I cannot think who the other might be.
Oriens.
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