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1 2 | liturgy, and in the West. St. Gregory the Great bears
2 5 | man and quite unskilled' (St. Leo the Great to Flavian,
3 5 | the flesh (cf. Flavian to St. Leo, Ep. xxvi; Pl. liv,
4 8 | called at Constantinople; St. Flavian, bishop of that
5 8 | higher authority. And so St. Leo the Great, bishop of
6 8 | without true humanity' (St. Leo the Great, Ep. xxviii,
7 9 | Christ. For the sake of peace St. Leo the Great sent delegates
8 10| synod of Ephesus, which St. Leo rightly called a 'Robbers'
9 10| Apostolic See itself. As soon as St. Leo learnt from the deacon
10 12| wife Eudoxia were entering St. Peter's Basilica, he received
11 12| accepted the letter which St. Leo wrote to Flavian on
12 13| vast suburban basilica of St. Euphemia, virgin and martyr,
13 15| letter sent by the synod to St. Leo 'For you', they wrote, '
14 15| synod of Chalcedon to St. Leo. Ep. xcviii, PL. liv,
15 16| and, as such, condemned by St. Leo in many letters. Marcian
16 16| even Anatolius wrote to St. Leo excusing his blameworthy
17 16| Beatitude' (Anatolius to St. Leo the Great. Ep. cxxxii,
18 17| among these the letter of St. Leo to Flavin was the most
19 17| and their explanations by St. Cyril at the council of
20 18| very important letter of St. Leo to Flavian concerning
21 19| lands in the basilica of St. Euphemia. k was made up
22 20| he had only one nature' (St. Leo, Ep. xxviii, 6. PL.
23 21| xxviii, 3. PL. liv, 763. cf. St. Leo, Serm. xxi, 2. PL.
24 25| Alexandria (who took it from St. Athanasius) with a perfectly
25 29| falsely understood sentence of St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians (
26 29| nature of man' - thus grandly St. Leo the Great - 'He Who
27 31| by the side of the Word. St. Leo not only adheres to
28 33| 33. Thus St. John the Evangelist declares: '
29 33| made flesh' (John i, 14). St. Paul writes of him: 'When
30 33| heavens' (Eph. iv, 10). St. Thomas Aquinas explains
31 33| Son of Man who went up' (St. Thomas, Comm. in Ep. ad
32 34| neither separation nor end' (St. Leo. Serm. 30, 6. PL. liv,
33 44| life of eternal happiness' (St. Leo Serm. lxxii, I. PL.
34 45| to be sharers. ~Given at St. Peter's Basilica, Rome,
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