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Icons of Holy Pope of Old
Rome, Leo I, "the Great"
Feast: June 28
St. Leo, who delivered Rome
from the hands of Attila the Hun by going out to meet him unarmed but
accompanied on either side by the Apostle Peter and the Apostle Paul,
authored the famous Tomos. This Tomos was read at the Great and Holy
Oecumenical Council of Chalcedon near Constantinople, 451. The
impious Dioscorus of Alexandria intercepted Leo's messages and tried to
defame him, but the grace of the Holy Spirit was upon the holy Pope
Leo. The 5th Oecumenical Council ensured that the Tomos, declaring the
Two Natures of Christ, could not be taken to imply a separation or
division between those two distinct Natures. Holy Father Leo, pray to
God for us!
Top Icon: by the hand of Marek
Czarnecki
Next Icon: by the hand of
Mother Justina, Greek Old Calendarist convent of St. Elizabeth, Etna,
California, with permission.
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Sinai Monastery.
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mediaeval Serbian church.
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provenance, from website pravoslavie.ru.
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provenance.
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on the Orthodox Church in America website.
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