From The Lives of the Popes from the Time of our Saviour Jesus Christ to the Accession of Gregory VII. Written Originally in Latin by B. Platina, Native of Cremona, and translated into English (from an anonymous translation, first printed in 1685 by Sir Paul Rycaut), Edited by William Benham, Volume I, London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, [1888, undated in text]; pp. 249.
The Lives of the Popes,
BY
B. Platina
Volume I.
LEO VII.
A.D. 936-939.
LEO the Seventh, a Roman, was created Pope during the reigns of Hugh and Lotharius in Italy, but did nothing worthy of our mentioning. But his time was made famous by the lives of Spireneus (according to Martinus), Duke of Bohemia, a man of signal devotion and justice; and of his son, Wenceslaus, who degenerated not at all from his father, killed by his brother, Boleslaus, who desired to reign. This Wenceslaus was afterwards justly canonised for a saint, upon proof made of the holiness of his life and of miracles wrought by him both while he lived and after his death. Leo, after he had sat three years, six months, and ten days, died, and was buried in St Peter’s Church. The see was then vacant three days.
Previous Pope: 129. John XI. 130. Leo VII. Next Pope: 131. Stephen IX.