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St Leo the Great, NPNF II.12

CXLV. Letter 145: To Leo Augustus

Letter CXLV. To Leo Augustus1

(Asking him to help the church of Alexandria in appointing a good bishop in place of the murdered Proterius2.)

Notes

  1. Marcian died in 457, and was succeeded by Leo of Thrace.
  2. On Marcian’s death there had been a rising, in which Proterius had been brutally murdered, and a monk named Timothy Aelurus set up in his stead.

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