Pope Leo XIII

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Pope Leo XIII


Born
in Carpineto, Italy
March 02, 1810

Died
July 20, 1903

Genre


Pope Leo XIII (Italian: Leone XIII), born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci to an Italian comital family, reigned as Pope from 20 February 1878 to his death in 1903. He was the oldest pope (reigning until the age of 93), and had the third longest pontificate, behind that of Pope Pius IX (his immediate predecessor) and John Paul II. He is the most recent pontiff to date to take the pontifical name of "Leo" upon being elected to the pontificate.

He is well known for his intellectualism, the development of social teachings with his famous papal encyclical [Book: Rerum novarum] and his attempts to define the position of the Catholic Church with regard to modern thinking. He influenced Roman Catholic Mariology and promoted both the rosary
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Rerum Novarum: Encyclical L...

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Aeterni Patris

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The Pope and the Freemasons...

4.65 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1892 — 27 editions
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On the Study of Sacred Scri...

4.67 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1893 — 13 editions
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Libertas: On the Nature of ...

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Immortale Dei: On the Chris...

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Arcanum Divinae

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“Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.”
Pope Leo XIII

“Nothing is more useful than to look upon the world as it really is, and at the same time to seek elsewhere...for the solace to its troubles.”
Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum: On the Condition of the Working Classes

“The world has heard enough of the so-called 'rights of man.' Let it hear something of the rights of God.”
Pope Leo XIII

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