The Venerable Leo Dupont also known as The Holy Man of Tours lived in Tours at about the same time.

This devotion ( started by Sister Marie and then promoted by the Venerable Leo Dupont ) was approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1885.

There are several memorial societies and monuments to him throughout Canada and the United States, most notably the Leo Molmonument in Washington, D. C., near Dupont Circle.

File: Taras Shevchenko Memorial-Church of the Pilgrims. JPG | Leo Mol's Taras Shevchenko Memorial, Church of the Pilgrims, Dupont Circle, D. C.

Twenty years later, the Venerable Leo Dupont initiated the nightly adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in Tours in 1849, from where it spread within France.

The Venerable Leo Dupont

The adoration of the Eucharist within France grew in this period and there were interactions between Catholic figures who were enthusiastic about spreading the Eucharist e. g. Leo Dupont, Saint Jean Vianney and Saint Peter Julian Eymard, who in 1858 formed the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament.

Interestingly, this time period in France saw the growth of a parallel Catholic devotion, namely the Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus which was started in 1844 in Tours by Sister Marie of St Peter, was promoted by Leo Dupont and was approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1885.

* Leo Dupont ( 1797 – 1876 ) The Venerable, Catholic religious figure.

File: Taras Shevchenko Memorial-inscription. jpg | Inscription on Leo Mol's Taras Shevchenko Memorial, Dupont Circle, D. C ..

File: Taras Shevchenko Memorial-Relief. JPG | Leo Mol's Taras Shevchenko Memorial, Dupont Circle, D. C ..

List of papal tombs | Tomb of Leo XI

| Kaj Leo Johannesen

| Leo I ( DDO 74 )

| Leo

| Leo II ( Leo B )

| Leo

Leo Tolstoy | Tolstoy

This 1690 depiction of the constellation of Leo ( constellation ) | Leo, the lion, is by Johannes Hevelius.

Ivan Kramskoi | Kramskoy's portrait of Leo Tolstoy ( 1873 )

Meeting between pope Pope Leo I | Leo I and Attila, by Raphael

Emperor Leo I the Thracian | Leo I ( 457 – 474 )

Raphael's Portrait of Leo X ( Raphael ) | Portrait of Leo X with cardinals Pope Clement VII | Giulio de ' Medici and Luigi de ' Rossi ( Uffizi )

Leo X's pet elephant, Hanno ( elephant ) | Hanno

Raffaello Santi | Raphael's The Meeting between Leo the Great and Attila depicts Leo, escorted by Saint Peter and Paul of Tarsus | Saint Paul, meeting with the Hun king outside Rome

He was declared Venerable by Pope Clement XIII on 8 February 1759 and beatified by Pope Leo XIII on 12 November 1893.

In March 1824, Pope Leo XII pronounced her Venerable ( the first step on the path to canonised sainthood ), and on 18 September 1864 Pope Pius IX declared her Blessed.

Pope Leo 13, on the 13th day of December 1898, granted the following indulgences: `` An indulgence of three hundred days is granted to all the Faithful who read the Holy Gospels at least a quarter of an hour.

In the list of popes given in the Holy See's annual directory, Annuario Pontificio, the following note is attached to the name of Pope Leo VIII ( 963 – 965 ): At this point, as again in the mid-eleventh century, we come across elections in which problems of harmonising historical criteria and those of theology and canon law make it impossible to decide clearly which side possessed the legitimacy whose factual existence guarantees the unbroken lawful succession of the successors of Saint Peter.

The Holy Roman Empire looked to Charlemagne, Charles the Great, King of the Franks, as its founder, who had been crowned Emperor of the Romans on Christmas Day in 800 by Pope Leo III.

Philip of Burgundy, 57th Bishop of Utrecht ( 1517 – 1524 ), through a family connection with Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, secured a significant concession from Pope Leo X, granting internal autonomy in both church and temporal affairs for himself and his successors without interference from outside their jurisdictional region.

In 800 Pope Leo III crowned the Frankish ruler Charlemagne as Roman Emperor, a major step toward establishing what later became known as the Holy Roman Empire ; from that date onward the popes claimed the prerogative to crown the Emperor, though the right fell into disuse after the coronation of Charles V in 1530.

* The Holy See-The Holy Father — website for the past and present Holy Fathers ( since Pope Leo XIII )

The general devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus had been approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1885 before the image on the Turin Shroud had been photographed.

The Ordinary Section continues the work of the Administration of the Property of the Holy See, a commission to which Pope Leo XIII entrusted the administration of the property remaining to the Holy See after the complete loss of the Papal States in 1870.

The Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus was eventually approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1885.

* 800: On Christmas Day, Charlemagne is crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III.

* December 25-Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome.

* Winter – Leo I sends a letter to Valentinian III, stating " by the Holy Spirit's inspiration the emperor needs no human instruction and is incapable of doctrinal error ".

Leo held three synods, one in 850 that was distinguished by the presence of Holy Roman Emperor Louis II, but the other two of little importance.

Its most important achievements were the registration at its eleventh sitting ( 9 December 1516 ) of the abolition of the pragmatic sanction, which the popes since Pius II had unanimously condemned, and the confirmation of the concordat between Leo X and Francis I, which was destined to regulate the relations between the French Church and the Holy See until the French Revolution.

Leo agreed to invest Charles V with the Kingdom of Naples, to crown him Holy Roman Emperor, and to aid in a war against Venice.

After Charles Martel countered the Moorish invasion from Spain ( 732 — Poitiers ), the King Charlemagne ( born close to Liège in Herstal or Jupille ) brought a huge part of Europe under his rule and was crowned the " Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire " by the Pope Leo III ( 800 in Aachen ).

* Three Apologetic Treatises against those Decrying the Holy Images – These treatises were among his earliest expositions in response to the edict by the Byzantine Emperor Leo III, banning the veneration or exhibition of holy images.

The young couple were married the year before at Amboise as part of the alliance between King Francis I of France and Pope Leo against the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I.

: O most wise Father Leo, your teachings are as music of the Holy Spirit for us!