According to Vatican News, the commemorative holy card for his ordination includes an image of the Last Supper, taken from ...

Likewise the prominent part played by the stories of popes Leo I, III and IV in Raphael’s stanze fresco cycle in four rooms in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace. All five Leo-centric scenes ...

Pope Leo XIV said his inaugural Mass at the Sistine ... Other things changed, too: Mr. Martinez’s place of birth was listed this time as Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic.

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the history of a legendary papal namesake. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost ...

Leo McElrath III, longtime law enforcement officer and Army veteran, passed away at 76 on May 8, 2025. Services will be May 12 in Marble Hill and Jackson. Leo Edward McElrath III passed away ...

while Leos III, IV, VII, VIII were more interested in politics — influencing royal marriages, waging wars — than church leadership. Once we hit Leo IX, however, things get interesting ...

Pope Leo III, born in Italy, was pope from 795 to 816 A.D. He was the 96th pope. During his 20-year papacy, Leo III crowned a Roman Emperor, setting a legal precedent that the "pontiff was the ...