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Pope Leo I Biography

Pope Saint Leo I (c. 400 – 10 November 461), also known as Saint Leo the Great, was Pope from 29 September 440 to his death in 461. Pope Benedict XVI said that Leo's papacy "...was undoubtedly one of the most important in the Church's history."

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Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

Conflict, Enemy, Temptation, Trial, Victory, Virtue

The cross of Christ is the true ground and chief cause of Christian hope.

Causes, Christ, Christian, Crosses, Hope, True

Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of love. Peace is the mother of unity. Peace is the rest of the blessed souls. Peace is the dwelling place of eternity.

Children, Dwelling, Mother, Peace, Souls, Unity

The birthday of the Lord is the birthday of peace.

Birthday, Lord, Peace

He that sees another in error and endeavors not to correct it, testifies himself to be in error.

Correct, Endeavor, Endeavors, Errors, Sees, Testifies

By Baptism we are made flesh of the Crucified

Baptism, Crucified, Flesh, Made

The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever.

Catholic, Given, Long, Love

The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ. . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.

Children, Jesus, Men, Power, True, Wisdom

God ordained for every man one and the same means of salvation.

Man, Mean, Men, Ordained, Salvation

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.

Catholic, Father, Fathers, Holy, Innovation, Permit

And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water of baptism is like the Virgin's womb; for the same Holy Spirit fills the font, Who filled the Virgin, that the sin, which that sacred conception overthrew, may be taken away by this mystical washing.

Holy, Like, Mystical, Spiritual, Taken, Water

Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp. Existing before time began, He began to exist at a moment in time.

Catholic, Chose, Exist, Moment, Moments, Moments In Time

The faith by which we live shall never vary in any age. . . for one is the faith which sanctifies the Just of all ages.

Age, Ages, Faith, Live, Salvation, Sanctify

A true worshipper is one whose mind has not been defiled with any false belief.

Belief, False, Mind, Salvation, Worshipper

Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital.

Needs, Labor, Capital

. . . the Apostle says, 'he that says he abides in Christ ought himself also to walk as He walked' (I Jn. 2:6). Otherwise we make a vain pretence and show, if we follow not His steps, Whose name we glory in, and assuredly they would not be irksome to us, but would free us from all dangers, if we loved nothing but what He commanded us to love.

Christian, Irksome, Love, Names, Ought, Steps

No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.

Cross, Faith, Inspiration, Prayer, Victory, Weak

Those who are not good to others are bad to themselves.

Bad, Good

David's Lord was made David's Son, and from the fruit of the promised branch sprang One without fault, the two-fold nature coming together in one Person, that by one and the same conception and birth might spring our Lord Jesus Christ, in Whom was present both true Godhead for the performance of mighty works and true Manhood for the endurance of sufferings.

Christian, Fruit, Jesus, Performance, Promised, Spring

Let no one be ashamed of the cross by which Christ has redeemed the world. None of us must be afraid to suffer for the sake of justice or doubt the fulfillment of the promises, for it is through toil that we come to rest and through death that we pass to life.

Doubt, Fulfillment, Justice, Promise, Toil, World

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