Dedications to Saints in Medieval Scotland

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ST/EW/168

Leo the Great

Gender
Male
Floruit (period)
None
Floruit date range
? - 461
Description
Pope who convened the Council of Chalcedon (451) and formulated the doctrine of the Incarnation. Also consolidated and increased the influence and presitge of the Bishop of Rome, promoting the primcay of the Roman see. ODS, 317--8.
Categories
major type minor type confidence notes
Confessor Bishop 100 None
ethnicity
ethnicity description confidence notes
no ethnicity available
feast days
month day fixed? description notes
4 11 yes Leo the Great None
symbolic attributes
attribute notes
no attributes given
specialist associations
association notes
no specialist associations