Saint of the Day Quote: Pope Saint Hilary

“Contradicitur!”

Shouted by the Pope when he served as a legate of Pope Leo the Great at the Second Council of Ephesus in 449, named the Robbers Council by Pope Leo in an attempt to halt the proceedings.  It proclaimed that Christ had one nature.  Its proceedings were annulled by the Council of Chalcedon in 451.  Saint Hilary was lucky to escape from the Robbers Council with his life.

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The Bruised Optimist
The Bruised Optimist
Saturday, February 28, AD 2026 8:46am

Have to read up on this.
As one of those arcane things that don’t come into play in the modern world.
Like persecution of Christians. Or heresy.

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