The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-12
BY FRANCES MARSHALL.

W. BY FRANCES MARSHALL.
't1lthough most OF the famous Leos.
ons, Leonards, Lionels and I.eanders
,nyc possessed To some degree at least.
lk qualities OF courage and bravery
mankind has always attributed 10
king of the beasts. yet the Hon
mes might some day fade from the
me OF history if 1t were not for two
I Sparta, and Leo l.. pope Of Rome.
Sd these two men typify, in Il sense,
AFsIcal and spiritual courage.
.eonidas was king of heroic race.
y psc watchwords were hcroism and en-
yancc. When, in the year $50 B. c.,
fmet the Persian force under their
ing Xerxes AT Thermopylae. he held
m mountain pass almost alone until
achery showed the enemy a road
mnd IL. Come and take them" said
midas to XerXcs when he commanded
sCreeks To give up their arms. And
,-hough his reply brought death in the
> row pass OF Thermopylae To I.conidas
nj his 300 brave companions, IL brought
I'm enduring life in the annals of the
: lids brave men.
H. Leo L. the Great was the ruler,
,,,ut 300 years later. Of struggling
trch. which looked on Rome as the
ri-fiily guardian of its dearest treasures.
rthe year f52 reports came from the
rfh that the great leader OF the Huns
tlla known rs the Scourgc of God,
IS marching toward Rome at the head
= his hordes.
= klmost alone the pious spiritual father
lthe terror stricken Romans went
"a sh. met the rugged barbarian chief
"A gained from him a promise TO grant
me three years grace. Before The Time
IS up Atttla had died, and Rome was
: few years later 4 new danger beset
Il city. The Nandals. from their
gdom In Africa. came up from the
18th with desolation and death in their
et an army of alf-civIlized and cruel
aders and again his simple coura ge
'7od them. When. In the name OF his
ster he begged them to spare the
Iivcs OF the citizens. but he insisted
tthc right 10 plumber. and for days
tVandals ransackcd palace and church.
and hovel, and carried away almost
pssrythIne in Rome that could be car
dBway. among other things the seven
nched candestick which one of the
perors had stolen from the temple at
Tusalem.
Tn snite Of this humiliation. the pope
10 be content. and his unassuming
sSublc. won high tribute for the
Ssirch he served and ruled. Never"
ID some one Of the church in his reign.
Gis. the Roman church appeared with
&c grandeur and less pomp.'
\ flthough perhaps more striklngiy
Arageous than any OF their brother
| li-men Leonidas and Leo l. are not
: pc in fame among the bearers Of these
nes.
A least four other poDes Of the name
nd out among the church's supreme
Flhs, Leo Ill. who is remembered
n ause on Christmas day. in the year
he crowned ChaTlemagEc emperor
the vatican did much To adorn the
rches OF Rome which the Nandals had
,-pred OF theIr wonders Leo ". gained
1N reputation cg being "a man without
:. roach about nifty years later. Each
nfr he used To direct the work Of building
~ lew citY on the sit" OF the vatican.
~ OF inciosi1S IL and ST. Peters within
<Yrong wall In ms enthusiasm Leo
IN, set some captured SaraCens at work
tne notifications. doubtless with the
tple purpose OF gaining their help and
fturning their Iniidcl minds toward the
Ne religion. He. like Leo III. is re-
Hmnercd in connection with one OF the
SHds famous kings; for the Saxon
-, Alfred. spent come nj his school
under this pope's tutclasc. Leo ".
n Al Florence III 1fI5. the second so:1
tne great Lorenzo de Medici. is re-
N nocred not only for his enbeIlishmcnt
Ene Italian churches and encourage
~ oil letters and art. but also because
vas his bull that Luther attacked at
I Rtennerg. Leo Nil. whom the pres
l pope succeeded In 1903, is of such
Pnt lame that II is hard TO tell what
me- ne Will take IN history. but surely
nany years in the papal chair viii be
Vhly regarded
n ,ssides Leonidas / OF Sparta, the most
III co rulers of the name were the I.eos
were empcrors OF The east. Leo III.
-.<ssnnc <ssnc lsaurlan. who about III DESTROYED
i'2uiacen Meet oY means OF the mys-
n .us .yus Srcck fire, and whose edict issued
III Ntis. me use Of images in the church
- tcu the famous iconoclastic move
i>58tit.ls the most famous Of all the By
rftlnc empcrors OF his name.
4, r5nel OF Antwerp although he never
l1a. IL another lion-man Of royal birth,
n Sas the third son OF Edward III. OF
y aha, and the beloved Phlippa Of
pseas'r' vnar ,a5s and was born in Antwerp in
~ the age Of Is he entered upon a
- vi arms. But ii is his second
fStriagc, to the beautiful Violante OF
~ s,a,,, which made him interesting to
Z, III, psopie OF his own and later days.
'y,sIle was Very fair and very rich
y J ner dover WAS some .. 900 900 norjns
eo'o ana many towns and castles In