Tag: Pope Leo I

The Irish missionary and founder of monasteries, Columbanus (†615), crossed into Italy in 612 and established his last foundation at Bobbio under the patronage of the Lombard king, Agilulf.

by Sandra Alvarez February 8, 2012

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The Place of the Papacy in the Ecclesial Piety of the 11th-century Reformers

In the tenth century, it was still the Ecclesia rather than the pope which constituted the fundamental reality. The men of the Gregorian reform, in contrast, saw the Church as dependent upon the pope and derived in some way from papal power.