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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 148
… This is evident from Anastasius's life of Leo II. (Vita Leonis II.) 12. The Papal Oath as found in the Liber Diurnus [338] taken by each new Pope from the fifth to the eleventh …
2,219 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 29
… To Cæsar Theodosius, the most religious and devout Augustus Leo pope of the CatholicChurch of the city of Rome [314] . He notifies the appointment of his representatives at the Council of Ephesus. How much God …
2,242 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 462
… of literature, and of great heroic sons, like Athanasius and Chrysostom in the East, and Cyprian and Augustine in the West; and her decadence as a capital,--had led Leo I., and others after him …
2,299 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 304
… 349-351; Ceillier, 12 (1862), 811-813; and for farther literature, Chevalier and Engelmann, 1 (1880), 249; also for editions, Plate, who has admirable survey. (44) Leo Diaconus (tenth century). Histories, 5. 9 and 8 …
2,231 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 8
… The repetition of the Holy Eucharist on the great festivals is not undesirable. Again, that our usage may coincide at all points, we wish this thing also to be observed, viz. that when any of …
1,339 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 16
… Concerning those who call themselves Cathari, if they come over to the Catholic and Apostolic Church, the great and holy Synod decrees that they who are ordained shall continue as they are in the clergy …
2,330 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 143
… Gregory Nyssen, a great bishop, says that the true confession of the mystery is, that there should be understood one human will and another a divine will in Christ, what does he bid us understand …
2,338 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 85
… John) was the earliest propounder. [836] These are heretics like Sabellius the founder of the Patripassian impiety. [837] These are Docetists,' to whom Leo in Sermon LXV., chap. 4, compares the Eutychians isti phantasmatici Christiani …
2,341 wordsChrysostom — Homilies on Matthew • SECTION 69
… t leo mn. And with this the Hebrew copies agree, as did St. Jerome's (in loc. t. vi. 63, Venet. 1768). But St. Cyril (in loc. t. iii. 96), reads t leo mo And …
1,360 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 133
… Leo, were set forth. Then the holy Council declared: "It is plain, from what has been recited, in what manner the holy Councils are wont to approve what is brought before them. For great as …
2,538 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 26
… XXII.) had not asked for any instructions, but only that Leo should inform the bishops under his jurisdiction of Eutyches' deposition (chap. iv.). Flavian's second letter (XXVI.), however, does mention vestras sacras litteras, which …
2,751 wordsTertullian — Latin Christianity • SECTION 35
… XI. (The Leo and the Leno, cap. l., p. 55.) Here we find the alliterative and epigrammatic genius of Tertullian anticipating a similar poetic charm in Augustine. The Christian maid or matron preferred the Leo …
1,599 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 292
… 50; Pseudo-Leo, p. 85, &c.). He retired to Nicomedia, residing at Thessalonica (Soz. 1. 7; Pseudo-Leo, &c.), but was put to death the following year. [3032] Constantine was now sole emperor. His first …
1,605 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 176
Indeed, the most wise and great and holy John Chrysostom says in his interpretation of the Acts, in the second discourse [2153] , "One would not err if he should call even His passion action: for …
1,634 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 4
… Nevertheless in the famous letter to Leo [43] he could boast that not a tare was left to spoil the crop. His fame as a preacher was great and wide, and makes us the more …
1,729 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 50
… From Anatolius, Bishop of Constantinople, to Leo. (Dealing with much the same subjects as Letter XCVIII. from Anatolius' own standpoint: Chap. iii. is translated in extenso as illustrating XCVIII., chap. iii.) III. He describes the …
1,967 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 7
… Our search has discovered in the City a great many followers and teachers of the Manichæan impiety, our watchfulness has proclaimed them, and our authority and censure has checked them: those whom we could reform …
701 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 27
… Isidore (it was composed at the commencement of the seventh century), and in that of Adrian (so called because it was offered to Charles the Great by Pope Adrian I). The celebrated Hincmar, Archbishop of …
715 wordsHippolytus, Cyprian, Caius & Novatian • SECTION 22
… XXIII.--Type of Those Born Under Sagittarius. Those born in Sagittarius will be of the following description: great length, square forehead, profuse eyebrows, indicative of strength, well-arranged projection of hair, reddish (in complexion). The …
717 wordsChrysostom — Priesthood, Ascetic Treatises & Homilies • SECTION 6
… Constantinople, built by Constantine the Great in 330, on the site of Byzantium, assumed as the Eastern capital of the Roman empire the first position among the episcopal sees of the East, and became the …
743 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 201
… Seeing, then, that a sinister rumour about our brother and fellow-bishop Leo [1439] had disseminated certain things inconsistent with his priestly profession, we caused strict and lengthened enquiry to be made as to whether …
754 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 70
… And hence having grasped the gist of your allegation and reviewed what took place at the inquiry of the bishops and leading men [616] , we gather that Sabinian and Leo, presbyters, lacked confidence in your …
2,237 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 32
… In consequence of these communications, Pope Leo often gave the preference to the Alexandrian computation, instead of that of the Church of Rome. At the same time also was generally established, the opinion so little …
2,199 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 132
… Since the most religious bishops of Egypt have postponed for the present their subscription to the letter of the most holy Archbishop Leo, not because they oppose the Catholic Faith, but because they declare that …
2,238 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 245
… the Holy, Great, and Ecumenical Seventh Synod. The holy and Ecumenical synod, which by the grace of God and most pious command of the God-beloved and orthodox Emperors, Constantine and Leo, [531] now assembled …
2,205 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 11
… An Ordinance of Valentinianus III. (Confirming Leo's sentence upon Hilary.) Letter XII. Leo, bishop of the city of Rome, to all the bishops of Mauritania Cæsariensis in Africa, greeting the Lord. I. The disorderly …
2,244 wordsLactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 212
… to any liturgy now extant. [4056] Some have attributed the authorship of the Roman Liturgy to Leo the Great, who was made bishop of Rome in a.d. 451; some to Gelasius, who was made …
2,202 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 3
… Leo the Great, instead of waiting, as Popes usually do, till the question was settled, published his sentiments at the beginning, and his letter to Flavian was adopted by the Council of Chalcedon. This is …
2,223 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 164
… To Leo, Bishop of Rome. [1877] If Paul, the herald of the truth, the trumpet of the Holy Ghost, hastened to the great Peter [1878] in order that he might carry from him the desired …
2,258 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 137
… Possibly, also, it was now that he made the acquaintance of one who was then quite young, but was destined afterwards to become famous as Pope Leo the Great; for some years afterwards (a.d …
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