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Pope Leo the Great, Confronting Attila the Hun, and Chalcedon: Fourth Ecumenical Council

Why was Pope Leo I also known as Pope Leo the Great? What were his accomplishments? Why was he declared a saint? How was Pope Leo the Great able to persuade Attila the Hun to refrain from sacking Rome? Why was Pope Leo the Great unable to persuade King Genseric not sack Rome a few months later? What concessions did this barbarian king grant? How did Pope Leo the Great influence the Fourth Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon with his Tome for Flavius? For more interesting videos, please click to subscribe to our YouTube Channel:    / @reflectionsmph   Shortcut:    / @reflectionsmph   YouTube video using this script:    • Pope Leo the Great, Confronting Attila the...   Script for this video: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/... © Copyright 2025 This blog includes footnotes: https://seekingvirtueandwisdom.com/po... The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints, Vol 1, by Jacobus de Voragine, William Granger Ryan, Translator https://amzn.to/432H7Dp Butler's Lives of the Saints: Concise, Modernized Edition, by Alban Butler https://amzn.to/45jg2x7 Church Fathers and Teachers: From Leo the Great to Peter Lombard, by Pope Benedict XVI https://amzn.to/435asx2 A History of the Popes: From Peter to the Present, by John W. O'Malley https://amzn.to/3hi9FA7 The Path of Christianity: The First Thousand Years Hardcover, by John Anthony McGuckin https://amzn.to/2UHXMeW The Iliad, by Homer, Robert Fagles, Translator https://amzn.to/2U255xW Tales of the Northwest, by William Joseph Snelling https://amzn.to/3tI7iff The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Penguin Classics) Abridged, David P. Womersley, Adapter, Edward Gibbon https://amzn.to/4nDWXvO Caesar and Christ, The Story of Civilization Volume 3, by Will Durant https://amzn.to/3R7Xvgq When we reflect on the Pope Leo the Great, how he responded to barbarians who sought to sack Rome, including Attila the Hun and King Genseric, and his role in the Fourth Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon, we discuss: • Did the Western Roman Empire truly fall? Or did it gradually evolve into the various barbaric kingdoms, which in turn evolved into the modern countries of Europe? • Whether Pope Leo XIV and Pope Leo XIII were inspired by Pope Leo the Great, or Pope Leo 1, aka Saint Leo the Great, and also Pope Leo III. • Histories and biographies penned by Edward Gibbon, Will Durant, Peter Brown, John Anthony McGuckin, Eamon Duffy, William O’Malley, and Pope Benedict XVI, and also recorded by the Great Courses Plus, or Teaching Company, and also Butler’s Lives of the Saints and the Golden Legend. • How Pope Leo the Great persuaded Attila the Hun not to sack Rome. • How Alaric sacked Rome for the first time in eight centuries. • What happened when the Roman princess Honoria promised her ring to Attila the Hun. • Did St Peter and St Paul also appear to Attila the Hun? • Where versions of the story may have referred to Elisha, the Sermon on the Mount, and the Jews murmuring to Moses, and also the camp meetings described in the Iliad and the Tales of the Northwest. • Conflicts in Fourth Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon between Pope Leo the Great, the Byzantine Church, and the Miaphysites, and the teachings of St Cyril. • Pope Leo the Great and his Tome to Flavian, drawing from the teachings of Tertullian and St Augustine, or Augustine of Hippo. • Emperor Justinian, who called the Fifth Ecumenical Council.   Please support our efforts, be a patron, at:   / seekingvirtueandwisdom   Patrons can participate in online Zoom discussions of draft presentations we prepare for future YouTube videos. As Socrates teaches us, the examined life is a life worth living. We would be fools if we did not desire to learn from our multitude of friends whose words live in the works of the classics that have survived from past centuries and millennia. The Stoic and moral philosophers of Greece and Rome saw philosophy as an evangelical enterprise, seeking to spread the joy of living a godly life for its own sake. This is original content based on research by Bruce Strom and his blogs. Images in the Public Domain, many from Wikipedia, some from the National Archives, are selected to provide illustration. When images of the actual topic or event are not available in the Public Domain, images of similar objects and events are used for illustration. All events are portrayed in historical context and for educational purposes. No images or content are primarily intended to shock and disgust. The ancient world was a warrior culture out of necessity, to learn from the distant past we should not only judge them from our modern perspective but also from their own ancient perspective on their own terms.