El papa San León I Magno/ Saint Leo Magnus (pope Leo I) (c.390-461)
Oil on canvas
Height: 164 cm (64.5 ″); Width: 105 cm (41.3 ″)
Prado Museum, Madrid, Spainaption
Pope Leo I (c. 400 – 10 November 461), also known as Saint Leo the Great, was Bishop of Rome from 29 September 440 and died in 461. Pope Benedict XVI said that Leo’s papacy “…was undoubtedly one of the most important in the Church’s history.”
He was a Roman aristocrat, and was the first pope to have been called “the Great”. He is perhaps best known for having met Attila the Hun in 452 and persuading him to turn back from his invasion of Italy…
Zaidan Gallery 
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