"Pope Leo, you know, was a great scholar and a poet."

Do with it what you will, Pope Leo had said of the gold.

The first unmistakable reference to Pope Leo is in 429 when he was only a deacon.

And, despite what he answered, Pope Leo gave him absolution.

Pope Leo was involved in Italian and European political disputes.

Pope Leo did not comment on the church's past teachings, except to say that it had always struggled against slavery's cruelties.

After his election, Pope Leo never went outside the gates of the Vatican.

Pope Leo was in office until the age of 93.

As the image right shows, it featured in various paintings of Pope Leo and was heavily identified with him.

The final obstacle, the gap between 1552 and 1662, to which Pope Leo refers, has also disappeared.