Pope Leo the Great

Pope Leo the Great was the first Pope to be called “the great.”

He was Pope for 21 years until his death Nov. 10, 461 AD

While he is famous for turning Attila the Hun away from sacking Rome and thus sparing the city.

He is even more famous for His defense of The One Person of Christ in two natures at the Council of Chalcedon.

The early Christians were uncertain how to explain,

How Jesus was both, God and man.

How Jesus could be both,

Immortal, infinite, omniscient, and Divine Son of God,

And at the same time, be mortal, finite, ignorant and human.

Through the writing of Pope Leo,

The Council Of Chalcedon which was near Constantinople, which is present day Istanbul, Turkey, decreed,’

That while Jesus Christ is a Divine Person with a Divine Nature,

When He Became flesh He took on a Human Nature as well.

So that the Second Person through His Divine Nature,

was Eternal, immortal, all knowing God

At the same time, through His Human Nature

Shared in our mortality, finitude, ignorance and humanity.

So Jesus is fully God and fully human.

And that means that God really does know what it means to be human,

God really does know what we experience,

Because He has done it through His Son,

Jesus Christ!

God Bless