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The Blessed Sister Mary of the Divine Heart was a religious sister from the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd who requested Pope Leo XIII to consecrate the entire world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. [58] Pope Leo XIII performed a number of consecrations, at times entering new theological territory.
As Pope, Pope Leo XIII used all his authority for a revival of Thomism, the theology of Thomas Aquinas. On 4 August 1879, Leo promulgated the encyclical Aeterni Patris ("Eternal Father") which, more than any other single document, provided a charter for the revival of Thomism—the medieval theological system based on the thought of Aquinas ...
In a later version, the vision is said to have occurred not in 1880, but on 13 October 1884, the year in which the Leonine Prayers were instituted but without the Prayer to Saint Michael. And yet another date, 25 September 1888, two years after Pope Leo XIII had added the prayer to the Leonine Prayers, was given in a 1991 version. [29]
13. Nobilissima Gallorum gens: On the Religious Question in France: 8 February 1884 14. Humanum genus: On Freemasonry: 20 April 1884 15. Superiore anno: Last year: On the Recitation of the Rosary: 30 August 1884 16. Immortale Dei "God's Immortal" On the Christian Constitution of States: 1 November 1885 17. Spectata fides: On Christian Education ...
Leo XIII presented Saint Joseph as a model at a time when the world and the Church were wrestling with the challenges posed by modernity. [1] With the encyclical Quamquam pluries, Leo XIII was the first pope to draw the lines of a theology of Saint Joseph, with clearly defined titles that fit into the history of salvation, of human redemption, both at the level of the incarnation, as husband ...
[15] [11]: 41 A century after his death, Leo XIII is often quoted, most recently by Pope Benedict XVI and John Paul II. He applied the Marian analysis of Louis de Montfort to the analysis of the Church as a whole. [16] Leo actively employed his papal authority to support the veneration of Mary in places of her apparitions.
Pope Leo XIII canonized them all on 15 January 1888. [ 8 ] [ 11 ] Their feast was inserted in the General Roman Calendar for celebration on 11 February. This had been the anniversary of the granting of canonical approval to the order in 1304.
Providentissimus Deus, "On the Study of Holy Scripture", was an encyclical letter issued by Pope Leo XIII on 18 November 1893. In it, he reviewed the history of Bible study from the time of the Church Fathers to the present, spoke against the errors of the Rationalists and "higher critics", and outlined principles of scripture study and guidelines for how scripture was to be taught in seminaries.