Lives and legends of the great hermits and fathers of the church, with other contemporary saints . stained-glasswindows. St. Mendhould is the patron Saint of lantern-makers,it is suggested because the manufacture of lanterns was aspeciality of the district in which she lived,, and P^re Cahier, inhis Caract6ristiques des Saints, reproduces a quaint medal,bearing what he thinks may be her effigy on one side and alantern on the other. CHAPTER XXIII SOME GREAT CHURCHMEN OF THE FIFTH CENTURY Two Popes who in the fifth century did much to consolidatethe power of the See of Rome and to pave the way f
Lives and legends of the great hermits and fathers of the church, with other contemporary saints . stained-glasswindows. St. Mendhould is the patron Saint of lantern-makers,it is suggested because the manufacture of lanterns was aspeciality of the district in which she lived,, and P^re Cahier, inhis Caract6ristiques des Saints, reproduces a quaint medal,bearing what he thinks may be her effigy on one side and alantern on the other. CHAPTER XXIII SOME GREAT CHURCHMEN OF THE FIFTH CENTURY Two Popes who in the fifth century did much to consolidatethe power of the See of Rome and to pave the way for thework of St. Gregory the Great, were Saints Sixtus III. andLeo I. The former, who was elected Pope in 432, and died in440, is chiefly remembered for the work he did in connectionwith S. Maria Maggiore, Rome, on which account he issometimes represented holding an image of the BlessedVirgin in his hand, or, more rarely, a pickaxe, in allusion tohis personal superintendence of the workmen engaged in thebuilding of the great I., surnamed the Great, who succeeded Sixtus III., and. H <;w o mK H o w a ^ &M HH ST. LEO THE GREAT 227 during whose Pontificate the Western Empire was established,exercised a most important influence over the history of histime. It was thanks to his intervention that Rome was savedfrom being taken by Attila; and, later, he saved the city fromabsolute destruction when it had fallen into the hands ofGenseric after the defeat of Maximus. The friend andcounsellor of St. Pulcheria and her consort Marcian, Leo theGreat was mainly instrumental in bringing about the wisedecisions of the Council of Chalcedon, and throughout thetwenty-one years of his reign his influence was ever in favourof moderation, whether in dealing with heretics or with thedeclared enemies of the Church. One of the patron Saints of Rome, St. Leo the Great ismuch honoured in that city, and the incident of his interviewwith Attila, at which Saints Peter and Paul are said to ha
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