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    Saint of the Day, November 10

    Pope St. Leo the Great

    Pope St. Leo the Great

    Pope St. Leo the Great

    d. 461

    Pope Saint Leo I (died 461) led the Church from 440 to 461, at a time when the Roman Empire in the West was collapsing. He is one of only two popes, with Gregory I, whom the Church calls "the Great," and he was declared a Doctor of the Church in 1754.

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