Leo di Roma (936 - 939)

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Biography

Pope Leo VII di Roma is Notable.

The biography for Pope Leo VII is short in The Lives of the Popes^[1]. It reads:

Leo the Seventh, a Roman, was created Pope during the reigns of Hugh and Lotharius in Italy, but did nothing worthy of our mentioning. But his time was made famous by the lives of Spireneus (according to Martinus), Duke of Bohemia, a man of signal devotion and justice; and of his son, Wenceslaus, who degenerated not at all from his father, killed by his brother, Boleslaus, who desired to reign. This Wenceslaus was afterwards justly canonised for a saint, upon proof made of the holiness of his life and of miracles wrought by him both while he lived and after his death. Leo, after he had sat three years, six months, and ten days, died, and was buried in St Peter's Church. The see was then vacant three days.

Leo died on 13 July 939 and was interred at St Peter's Basilica.^[2]

Research Notes

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Sources

1. ↑ Platina, Bartolomeo (1479) The Lives of the Popes , I, London: Griffith Farran & Co., p. 239, retrieved 2021-04-07
2. ↑ Wikipedia