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Letters and Sermons of St Leo the Great (including the Tome)

Saint Leo the Great · c. 450 AD

Ante-Nicene Fathers (Roberts–Donaldson), Roberts, Donaldson, and Coxe (eds.), Ante-Nicene Fathers, Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing, 1885–1887; digitized by CCEL.

Pope of Rome (440–461); a saint and one of two Western popes traditionally given the title "the Great." His dogmatic Tome (Letter to Flavian of Constantinople) was acclaimed as the touchstone of orthodox Christology at the Council of Chalcedon (451): "Peter has spoken through Leo." The Tome and his sermons fix the Latin vocabulary for the Chalcedonian definition of the two natures united in the one Person of Christ. Commemorated in the Orthodox Church on 18 February.

Contents

  1. Prefatory Note(1 chapter)
  2. Letters(167 chapters)
  3. Sermons(48 chapters)