Leo the Great meets Attila
452 · Event
The pope rides out to face the Hun on the Mincio and Attila turns back from Rome — diplomacy, plague or miracle, the encounter makes the papacy Italy's protector.
On these timelines: The Papacy, Christianity, Major Religions, Master, Roman History
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