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The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great

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To Leo Augustus

Letter CXLV.

[1](Asking him to help the church of Alexandria in appointing a good bishop in place of the murdered Proterius.[2])

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[1] Marcian died in 457, and was succeeded by Leo of Thrace.

[2] On Marcian’s death there had been a rising, in which Proterius had been brutally murdered, and a monk named Timothy Ælurus set up in his stead.

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