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4 days ago · Charlemagne, also known as Charles the Great, is often considered the founder of the Holy Roman Empire. Crowned Emperor by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day, 800, Charlemagne’s reign marked the Carolingian Renaissance—a revival of art, religion, and culture through the Carolingian Empire.
6 days ago · In 732, Emperor Leo III the Isaurian, in revenge for the opposition of Pope Gregory III to the emperor's iconoclast policies, transferred Sicily, Calabria and Illyria from the patriarchate of Rome (whose jurisdiction until then extended as far east as Thessalonica) to that of Constantinople.
5 days ago · Leo III the Isaurian (717–741 AD) turned back the Muslim assault in 718, and achieved victory with the major help of the Bulgarian khan Tervel, who killed 32,000 Arabs with his army in 740 in Akroinon. Raids by the Arabs against Byzantium would plague the Empire all during the reign of Leo III.
5 days ago · Popular support for the popes in Italy, enabled several to defy the will of the Byzantine emperor: Pope Gregory II excommunicated Emperor Leo III during the Iconoclastic Controversy. Nevertheless, the Pope and the exarch still worked together to limit the rising power of the Lombards in Italy.
4 days ago · Pope Innocent XI (1676-1689) was beatified in 1956, and then Pius IX and John XXIII were beatified in 2000. Pope Paul VI was canonized in 2018 and Pope John Paul I was beatified in 2023. There is a cause open for Pope Pius VII, and Pope Pius XII has already been declared “Venerable.”. Pope Francis himself joked about the return of the popes ...
6 days ago · Writing about St. Peter Canisius in 1897, Pope Leo XIII noted similarities between the late 19th century and the saint's own lifetime, “a period when the spirit of revolution and looseness of...
5 days ago · Footnote 66 Pope Leo XIII succeeded to Pius IX on 20 February 1978 and authorized Lavigerie to send missionaries to East Africa via Zanzibar. The first caravan of the White Fathers split into two in Tabora, one branch destined to the shore of the Tanganyika Lake, the other to Victoria-Nyassa in today’s Uganda.
