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15 unusual facts about Pope Leo XIII


Amidei

In 1888 he, along with the other six saints, was sanctified by Pope Leo XIII.

Amulet

Pope Pius IX gave this scapular his blessing, but it was first formally approved under Pope Leo XIII.

Gaetano Sanseverino

From that time until the end of his life, his only concern was the restoration of Christian philosophy, in which by his writings, lectures and conversation, he was of supreme assistance to Pope Leo XIII.

Germany–Holy See relations

The Catholic anti-liberalism was led by Pope Pius IX; his death in 1878 allowed Bismarck to open negotiations with Pope Leo XIII, and led to his abandonment of the Kulturkampf in stages in the early 1880s.

Gianni Bettini

He made of extraordinary recordings of an elderly Pope Leo XIII in 1903, Mark Twain and President Benjamin Harrison.

Johannes Olav Fallize

On 6 February 1887, because of his successes in both media and politics, Fallize was named by Pope Leo XIII as the second Prefect Apostolic of Norway as well as the Protonotary Apostolic and the Prelate of the Papal Chambers.

Maria Longworth Nichols Storer

In 1899 Bellamy Storer became the foreign minister of Spain, and the two convinced President William McKinley to petition Pope Leo XIII to make Ireland a Cardinal (with the help of New York governor Theodore Roosevelt).

Pecci

Pope Leo XIII (1810–1903), born Count Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church (1878 to 1903)

Quart de Poblet

Pope Leo XIII stated in this holy anchorite, who is credited with the miracle of the end of a cholera epidemic in 1885, principal patron of the villa.

René le Brun, Comte de L'Hôpital

His best known works are the illustrations he did for the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1911) and his portraits of Pope Leo XIII, Sir Alfred Scott-Gatty and Prince Arthur of Connaught.

Scapular of St. Joseph

In 1898, Pope Leo XIII granted the Capuchins the right of blessing and investing this scapular.

Scapular of St. Michael the Archangel

Pope Pius IX gave this scapular his blessing, but it was first formally approved under Pope Leo XIII, who sanctioned the Archconfraternity of the Scapular of St. Michael.

Thomas Bouquillon

He enjoyed and retained the intimate confidence of Pope Leo XIII and of many eminent churchmen, and showed throughout his life devotion to the ideals, teaching, and administration of the Church.

Tommaso Reggio

In 1892 he asked Pope Leo XIII to relieve him of his duties, however the Pope appointed him archbishop of Genoa.

Vatican Observatory

In 1891, however, Pope Leo XIII issued a Motu Proprio re-founding the Specola Vaticana (Vatican Observatory) and a new observatory was built on the walls at the edge of the Vatican.


Andrey Sheptytsky

In 1899, following the death of Cardinal Sylvester Sembratovych, Sheptytsky was nominated by Emperor Franz Joseph to fill the vacant position of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishop of Stanyslaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk), and Pope Leo XIII concurred.

Branch theory

This church has identified itself as the "one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church" in, for instance, synods held in 1836 and 1838 and in its correspondence with Pope Pius IX and Pope Leo XIII.

Chute-Saint-Philippe, Quebec

The settlement initially had the name Chute-Leon at the beginning of the 20th century, in memory of Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903), and was called Victoria Falls by 1903, in honour of Queen Victoria (1819-1901).

Colegio Salesiano de Leon XIII

Finally, by direct intervention of Pope Leo XIII (which is why the first foundation bearing his name), the successor of Don Bosco, Don Michael Rua, sent the first eight Salesian.

Holy orders

The Roman Catholic Church judged Anglican orders invalid when Pope Leo XIII in 1896 wrote in Apostolicae Curae that Anglican orders lack validity because the rite by which priests were ordained was not correctly worded from 1547 to 1553 and from 1558 to the time of Archbishop William Laud, (Archbishop of Canterbury 1633–1645).

House of the Virgin Mary

The shrine has merited several papal Apostolic Blessings and visits from several popes, the earliest pilgrimage coming from Pope Leo XIII in 1896, and the most recent in 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI.

John Molony

During the course of his career, Molony has published a number of scholarly works on subjects as diverse as the encyclical of Pope Leo XIII and Ned Kelly to the bicentennial history of Australia, as well as numerous newspaper and journal articles, chapters in books and literary reviews.

Karl Freiherr von Vogelsang

Many of his thoughts found entrance into the 1891 Rerum Novarum encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII.

Le Sillon

In 1891, Pope Leo XIII called for the Church to adopt a more open involvement in social issues in his encyclical Rerum Novarum.

Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy

Many leaders of the church have been alumni of the academy, including Popes Clement XIII, Leo XII, Leo XIII, Benedict XV, and Paul VI.

Sacred Heart

After Pope Leo XIII received several letters from Sister Mary of the Divine Heart, the countess of Droste zu Vischering and Mother Superior in the Convent of the Congregation of the Good Shepherd Sisters in Porto, Portugal, asking him to consecrate the entire world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, he commissioned a group of theologians to examine the petition on the basis of revelation and sacred tradition.

Social teachings of the papacy

Influenced by the German Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Ketteler, in 1891 Pope Leo XIII published the encyclical Rerum Novarum, which set in context Catholic social teaching in terms that rejected socialism but advocated the regulation of working conditions.

Victor-Lucien-Sulpice Lécot

On the 10 June 1886, he was appointed Archbishop of Dijon by Pope Leo XIII.