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Hello, welcome to Catholic Saints.

My name is Dr. Ben Acres.

I'm the chief content officer here at the Augustine Institute.

And joining me today is Professor Carl Venestrom, who is one of our professors in the Graduate School of Theology.

And today we're talking about Pope St. Leo the Great, who Pope Benach the 16th, a recent Holy

Father, said that Pope Leo the Great is one of the greatest,

and most prominent popes in the church's history, which is probably why we give him the name Great.

Yeah, that's right. Actually, I think the word great is a good place to start.

This is a kind of acclamation for,

for saints, right? So he didn't become Pope and say, hey, my name, I'm called me Pope Leo the

great. Leo Manus, yeah. Yeah, that's right. No, he didn't take it for himself. And it's not a

designation that I think the church gives people, like the church might declare someone a doctor of the church.

We've had a few of those recently.

But, yeah, instead, this is how they're received in the history of the church.

And there's only, I think, around four of them.

So there's Pope Leo the Great, who's the first.

Then Pope Gregory the Great comes after him's Pope Leo the Great who's the first then Pope Gregory the

great yeah comes after him Pope Nicholas the Great yeah and then Gertrude St.

Gertrude who's a Benedictine mystic from the medieval period she's unlike the

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