LEO VII, POPE. - He reigned from January 936 to July 939, but no information is available about his person, and little is known of the activities he undertook.
The chronicler Flodoard calls him "a true servant of God," which suggests that he was favorable to the reform of ecclesiastical morals advocated at that time.
LEO IV, POPE, SAINT - Portrait of Leo IV (with the square nimbus, signum vicentis), detail of the fresco depicting the Ascension (847-52) - Rome, church of S. Clemente.
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LEO IX – LEO X
BIBL.:
bech. I, nn. 520-49; Lib. Pont., II, p. 276; P. P. Brucker, L'Alsace et l'Église au temps du pape et Léon IX, 2 voll., Strasbourg-Paris 1889; id., Leben Papst Leos IX., Strasbourg 1902; E. Martin, St Léon IX, Paris 1904; J. Drehmann, Leo IX. und die Simonie, Leipzig 1908; K. Guggenberger, Die deutschen Päpste, Munich 1916, pp. 41-71; Hefele-Leclercq, IV, pp. 716-77; A. Fliche, La réforme grégorienne, I, Paris 1924, pp. 120-59; J. Gay, Les papes du XIe siècle, ibid. 1926, pp. 121-67; Martyr. Rom., p. 146. Lucchesio Spalding