Thursday 10 November 2011

St Leo the Great


Last year I posted St Leo the Great ... and his biographer to mark the feast of one of the greatest and most influential Pope-theologians. I always enjoy the extracts from his sermons and writings appointed for the Office of Readings.

This year I have found an illustration of St Leo seeing off Attila the Hun from the gates of Rome with the assistance of SS Peter and Paul. It comes from the great fourteenth century Hungarian Chronicle.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Chronicon_Pictum_P016_Attila_%C3%A9s_Le%C3%B3_p%C3%A1pa.JPG

Image: orientem.blogspot


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