He groomed the headstrong Piero II to follow as his successor in civil leadership ; Giovanni ( future Pope Leo X ) was placed in the church at an early age ; and his daughter Maddalena was provided with a sumptuous dowry to make a politically advantageous marriage to a son of Pope Innocent VIII.

Feeling that the primatial rights of the bishop of Rome were threatened, Leo appealed to the civil power for support, and obtained from Valentinian III the famous decree of 6 June 445, which recognized the primacy of the bishop of Rome based on the merits of Peter, the dignity of the city, and the legislation of the First Council of Nicaea ; and provided for the forcible extradition by provincial governors of any bishop who refused to answer a summons to Rome.

Pope Leo XIII began his pontificate with a friendly letter to Tzar Alexander II, in which he reminded the Russian monarch of the millions of Catholics living in his empire, who would like to be good Russian subjects, provided their dignity is respected.

Although Basil seems to have shared this belief ( and hated Leo ), the subsequent promotion of Basil to caesar and then co-emperor provided the child with a legitimate and Imperial parent and secured his succession to the Byzantine throne.

Nelson closed the 1980s with the William Lustig thriller, Relentless ( 1989 ), in which he plays a Los Angeles serial killer being hunted by two cops ( Robert Loggia and Leo Rossi ); he also provided a cameo in the Adam Rifkin road movie Never on Tuesday ( 1989 ) Tommy Chongs ( Out Man ) ( 1989 ) along with Nicolas Cage, Cary Elwes, Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen.

She has produced records ( including Leo Kottke's Peculiaroso ), and provided a voiceover for Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, in which she played the Blue Fairy ( Known as the Good Fairy or Fairy Godmother in the film ).

Illegitimacy has for centuries provided a motif and plot element to works of fiction by prominent authors, including William Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Fielding, Voltaire, Jane Austen, Alexandre Dumas, père, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, Alexandre Dumas, fils, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Thomas Hardy, C. S.

With the construction site details provided by Leo, the three depart for the construction site.

These letters were known as ‘ decretals ’ from at least the time of Siricius ( 384-399 ) to Leo I provided general guidelines to follow which later would become incorporated into canon law.

* Inter Multiplices, a Bull published by Leo X on 4 May 1515, which sanctioned the Monti di pietà: financial institutions under strict ecclesiastical supervision which provided loans to the needy in the manner of pawn shops, and which had attracted both support and opposition from within the church since their establishment in the previous century ;

He provided updating and commentary for the millennial edition of Leo Rosten's classic, The Joys of Yiddish.

In 1986, Bain provided $ 4. 5 million to two supermarket executives, Leo Kahn and Thomas G. Stemberg, to open an office supply supermarket in Brighton, Massachusetts.

The fact that the late 19th century saw the second and third longest papal reigns ( to that point ) of Pius IX ( 31 years ) and Leo XIII ( 25 years ) provided additional jubilees ; their length of time since ordination, length since entering the episcopate, length of papal reign, etc.

The University of Tsukuba has provided several Nobel Prize winners so far, such as Leo Esaki, Hideki Shirakawa and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga.

819 by emperor Leo V and provided with their own naval squadrons, possibly as a defense against Rus ' raids.

Within the framework of the reforms Leo III the Isaurian, ( the first Isaurian emperor ), introduced, he provided also for the modification of current laws.

The Emperor asked Leo to preside over the council, but Leo again chose to send legates in his place.

The papal legates were not present for the vote on this canon, and protested it afterwards, and it was not ratified by Pope Leo in Rome.

Leo I refused to accept this canon, basing himself on the fact that it was made in the absence of his legates.

Pope Leo I, whose legates had been ignored at the council, protested, first calling the council a " robber synod ", and declared its decisions void.

Legates from Pope Leo IX excommunicated the Patriarch of Constantinople Michael Keroularios when Keroularios would not agree to adopt western church practises, and in return Keroularios excommunicated the legates.

In 920, he was asked by the Byzantine Emperors Romanos I and Constantine VII and the Patriarch of Constantinople Nicholas Mystikos to send some legates to Constantinople to confirm the acts of a synod which condemned fourth marriages ( a legacy of the conflict which embroiled Constantine ’ s father Leo VI the Wise ) thereby ending a schism between the two churches.

He summoned the parties to see him at Rome, but they were unable to attend, forcing John to send some papal legates to settle the matter, which were only resolved by Pope Leo VI after John ’ s deposition and death.

The validity of the Western legates ' act is doubtful, since Pope Leo had died, while Cerularius's excommunication applied only to the legates personally.

When Pope Leo died on 19 April 1054, the legates ' authority legally ceased, but they effectively ignored this technicality.

Some have questioned the validity of the bull on the grounds that Pope Leo IX had died at that time and so the authority of the legates to issue such a bull is unclear.

Although economic and personal circumstances vary widely among those now choosing apartments, Leo J. Pantas, vice president of a hardware manufacturing company, pointed out recently that many apartment seekers seem to have one characteristic in common: a desire for greater convenience and freedom from the problems involved in maintaining a house.

The emperor Leo III issued a decree in 726 against images, and ordered the destruction of a statue of Christ over one of the doors of the Chalke, an act that was fiercely resisted by the citizens.

The first computer using a multiprogramming system was the British Leo III owned by J. Lyons and Co .. Several different programs in batch were loaded in the computer memory, and the first one began to run.

" In March 1969, he had a meeting with one of the main critics of Humanae Vitae, Cardinal Leo Joseph Suenens.

Of the two references, General Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, the German military attaché in London, commented that Ribbentrop had been a brave soldier in World War I, while the wife of the Italian Ambassador to Germany, Elisabetta Cerruti, called Ribbentrop " one of the most diverting of the Nazis ".

Leo () is one of the constellations of the zodiac, lying between Cancer to the west and Virgo to the east.

One of the 48 constellations described by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, Leo remains one of the 88 modern constellations today.

Leo, who was of non-noble birth, had risen in the hierarchy of Rome and was elected Pope only one day after the burial of his predecessor, Pope Adrian I, who had worked for good relations between Rome and the Frankish Empire under Charlemagne.

He was one of only two men known to have served as Camerlengo immediately prior to being elected as pope ( the other being Pope Leo XIII ).

It was around this time when a long series of busts of past Popes was made for the Duomo of Siena, which included one of the female Pope, named as " Johannes VIII, Foemina de Anglia " and included between Leo IV and Benedict III.

Indeed, at one point he mentions " Leo and Benedict, successively great priests of the Roman Church ".

Leo, eager to ensure a valid election, approached key members of every Cardinal ’ s entourage, promising each one that he would support their master when the voting for the election was underway.

He was with Leo IX in his expedition against the Normans and at one time had to take refuge from Emperor Henry II in Monte Cassino.

After the Middle Ages, Rome was ruled by popes such as Alexander VI and Leo X, who transformed the city into one of the major centers of the Italian Renaissance, along with Florence.

He was beatified by Pope Leo XIII as one of a group of fifty-four English Martyrs on 29 December 1886.

Leo Strauss ( in The City and Man ) locates the problem in the nature of Athenian democracy itself, about which, he argued, Thucydides had a deeply ambivalent view: on one hand, Thucydides ' own " wisdom was made possible " by the Periclean democracy, which had the effect of liberating individual daring, enterprise and questioning spirit, but this same liberation, by permitting the growth of limitless political ambition, led to imperialism and, eventually, civic strife.

Count Lev Nikolaevich ( 1828 – 1910 ), more widely known abroad as Leo Tolstoy is acclaimed as one of the greatest novelists of all time.

Treated with favor by the Emperors Leo I and Zeno ( ruled 474 – 475 and 476 – 491 ), he became magister militum ( Master of Soldiers ) in 483, and one year later he became consul.

Regarding the decision of the council, Leo wrote once and again in approbation of the decision of the council and in condemnation of Honorius, whom he regarded as one who profana proditione immaculatem fidem subvertare conatus est ( roughly, " one who by betrayal has tried to overthrow the immaculate faith ").

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.

The sacred college had allegedly grown especially worldly and troublesome since the time of Sixtus IV, and Leo took advantage of a plot of several of its members to poison him, not only to inflict exemplary punishments by executing one ( Alfonso Petrucci ) and imprisoning several others, but also to make a radical change in the college.

The Vatican projects took most of his time, although he painted several portraits, including those of his two main patrons, the popes Julius II and his successor Leo X, the former considered one of his finest.

In a letter of about 446 to a successor bishop of Thessalonica, Anastasius, Leo reproached him for the way he had treated one of the metropolitan bishops subject to him ; after giving various instructions about the functions entrusted to Anastasius and stressing that certain powers were reserved to the pope himself, Leo wrote: " The care of the universal Church should converge towards Peter's one seat, and nothing anywhere should be separated from its Head.