Posted by Luke J. Wilson on 12th April 2017 in Lent | Lent,great lent,fasting,early church fathers,devotional,daily reading,Doctor of the Church,lectures,Tome,leo the Great,st leo,hypostatic union,deity of christ,heresy,Pope leo I
Day Thirty-seven:
st.
leo the Great: Letter XXVIII (called the "Tome")
Who:
leo the Great, also known as Pope
st.
leo I (the Great), was Pope from 440-61 AD. Place and date of birth unknown; died 10 November, 461.
leo's pontificate, next to that of
st. Gregory I, is the mo
st significant and important in Chri
stian antiquity, as he tried to combat the heresies which seriously threatened church unity even in the We
st, such as Pelagianism.
What: A defence of the twofold nativity and nature of Chri
st again
st the false teaching of a prie
st called Eutyches. It is a doctrinal letter sent by Pope
leo I in the year 449 to Flavian, Patriarch of Con
stantinople, on the...