Leo XIII

[noleyplatz]

If the 2nd Vatican Council hadn't cancelled Leo's practice of saying the St Michael prayer after masses the Church wouldn't be in the state it's in today. Leo had a vision of what we're up against the this is a spiritual weapon against evil spirits. Everyone can still say it, however, especially after the Rosary, another practice which Leo encouraged.

[mgm147]

it is the oldest pope video in the world?

Very interesting, it feeling spirit of age:)

[saltillo220985]

!Viva Cristo Rey¡ !Viva Santa María de Guadalupe¡ !Viva el Papa¡ !Viva nuestra Madre la Iglesia: Una, Santa, Católica, Apostólica y Romana¡

[kilomekilome]

amazing

[backwalk]

Cool! Getting blessed by a Pope 114 years ago!

[bzhseat]

a great Pope

[ADKubi]

It's great to see a video of one of the great supporters of the workers' rights movement of the 19th century.

He was also funny, too: at an audience, someone told him he had been at one of Pius IX's last audiences before his death, and Pope Leo said, "If I had known you were so dangerous to popes, I would've postponed this audience further."

[tht707]

@ADKubi: That's too cool. He's my hero :-)

[Aeon135]

o yeah, grandpa that said that freedom of thought and speech were not natural human rights

[TheSacredHeart2]

I have the strongest urge to shout out:

"Hello grandpapa Leo!" I would very much like to give him a big hug. I admire him because even though he was good and kind, he still had a good sense of morals and discipline. If I was made Pope, Leo XIII would be a likely candidate for Sainthood. Long live the Pope!

[vagadellestelle]

haha! He's always smiling and happy! How good Leo looks! He looks like an old grandpa you would like to play with and hug him all the time! :)

[Glennishking]

Great video! What an unexpected thing to chance upon! The way he blesses seems so odd. Or is it just a very elegant wave?

[checkthisout732]

well, if you carefully look at it, he is doing both, waving, AND blessing. when he puts up three fingers he's blessing. =)

[brunofontanella]

Thank you very much for posting this historical document, indeed. As you know, Leo XIII is the author of "Rerum novarum", in which we can read: "...in all agreements between masters and work people there is always the condition expressed or understood that there should be allowed proper rest for soul and body".

[meiguoren777]

Haha. Pope Leo XIII is the kind pope you want to hug!

[HarmAllShip]

Thank you for posting this! Beautiful...

He was a great Pope, the one Ste Thérèse met... He did so much for the Faith, for the Church... And how lovely it is to see him like that..

[oioioiioioio]

Fantastic, I love that storic period, the style, the tradition and many other things that u can see in many photos and rarely in video like this one. A piece of human story.

[rrbond07]

The church has had to weather many storms, worse than what we are going through now. In the end, She will win out.....always!

[agni2003]

grande!!! si vede che aveva un viso simpatico e gentile

[pedrocanoli]

Belíssimo! Viva o Papa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[zakko86]

come si direbbe oggi,Leone XIII HA FATTO LA SUA PRIMA BENEDIZIONE mediatica

[wjweigand]

God, please send us another Pope Leo to drive the modernists out of your Churches, Seminaries and Convents.

[MRO1970]

Amen!

[agostinhohipona]

I am praying for it!

Amen!

[Counterrevolutionite]

If only, I'm sad to report that the heirachy in Britain is entirely under the boot of liberal forces. :( Most of us from the younger generation want real, orthodox and timeless Catholicism. Not has beens from the 1950s insulting our intelligence by trying to be "cool", "funky" and "hip".

[GenFerrer1]

Santo subito!

My videos deal with the social encyclicals, begun by Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum.

He should be a saint.

[edotorino]

e' pazzesco pensare che questo filmato ha 112 anni!!!!

[lent77cv]

LEO XIII SANTO SUBITO!!!

[fan2jnrc]

How lovely, how charming is the Pope, with this caring wave of the hand! And at the same time, what majesty when he's getting rid of his hat and his eyeglass in the last sequence! He's really bith a father and a monarch... A true Pope... The last one in this style was Pius XII (perhaps at the limit John XXIII...) All this is over now...

[phil8888]

Do not lose heart. The papacy is alive and well. Pope John Paul II had a very warm personality and great humor and many people are seeing a side of Pope Benedict they were unaware of. He is very kind and loving.

[fan2jnrc]

John Paul II had absolutely not the majesty of Popes like Leo XIII or Pius XII... And I like Pope Benedict, but the "true" papacy is dead since Vatican II...

[wjweigand]

I agree, the Papacy is not about warm and fuzzy feelings or personality, it is about adhering to and upholding ALL the Doctrines and Dogmas of the Catholic Church. The Vatican II claimants have abandoned the faith and started a new religion with new sacraments, new disciplines, new morality (or rather immorality). Instead of builiding up Christs Church, they have been in the process of dismantling it.

[trampoliere82]

Fa davvero impressione vedere questo bellissimo (quanto rarissimo) video del lontano XIX secolo!!! Non a torto, proprio per queste brevi sequenze video, alcuni storici hanno definito Leone XIII il primo "PAPA MEDIATICO" della storia! Davvero bello! Grazie Mogrimus per averlo condiviso con tutti noi!!!

[Ultramar0270]

This video is incredible, it's a video important for the present and future. Please save this video, is a treasure.

[Comunioneliberazione]

che DIO benedica tutti noi

[s0e9r1g8io]

es un extraordinario video historico, una reliquia invaluable de los primeros estudios de television,muchas gracias

[MARTINKUK1]

Lovely clip! Thanks a lot! I admire its charm and elegance of the past

[paddyjoe68]

What a beautiful clip, I advise all who liked or loved it to see Pius XI, I believe a man of great holiness. As for sebreathnach, I hope that´s not a good Irish name you are using, this is a clip for Catholics, you don´t need to watch if it offends you so much. I´m a proud Irish Catholic.

[DivinoDante89]

Ma è magnifico. Un reperto storico di grandissimo interesse. Abbiamo visto un personaggio che ha visto i moti del risorgimento e che ha parlato a tu per tu con Pio IX. Con questo video ho ripercorso 150 anni della storia del nostro paese e della Chiesa.

[sebreathnach]

YooHoo Typhoo!

[BTricolore]

Fantastico!! Leone XIII, il primo Papa a essere ripreso da una cinepresa. 1896...112 anni fa

W il Papa

[rokokrkor]

Viva il Papa!

Naj živi papež!

Long live pope!

[sebreathnach]

Did you ever see such bowing and scraping. And this is 'Christ's vicar on earth'. No Pharaoh had it so good!

Thanks for making it available! I cringe to think that my mother brought me up a Roman Catholic!

[paul0222]

Dear Sebreathnach,

You should learn WHY that was done before you make a judgment. It has its historical roots in the Code of Chivalry and each gesture has a meaning. Maybe if you studied your faith instead of making judgments you would understand the meaning of what was being done. Each movement and garment has historical, social and religious meaning.

[sebreathnach]

The question isn't what old-time significance older-time religion has, or, indeed, your Pulpit approach to it, but rather what it has to do with now. Only the most privileged can live in the middle ages and only the most mediocre can appreciate it for anything but the Ancien Regime battening off the religiously and emotionally crippled ...

[paul0222]

Your lack of education (as also demonstrated by your spelling) is getting in your way of reasoning. You CAN NOT JUDGE what was by today's standards. Additionally, one's "social status" is irrelevant. My comments are based in fact. Read the Code of Chivalry it actually defends and mandates care of the less fortunate (like Confucianism). Your comments are very anti-Catholic not scholastic and thus the issue is with and in you not the Church. Oh was that pulpit like or just truth?

[sebreathnach]

The only way one CAN JUDGE yesterday is by today's standards. What possible others are there? And 'social status' does matter, if one has enormous privilege and another is tortured by that privilege. Your view is not just indifferent to these two things, but is absolutely biased because of them...

[sebreathnach]

Why don't your read Francesco Carotta. He's not 'anti-catholic'; he has merely proved that they whole Catholic church and the Mediteranean Myth that they have lived off for the past two thousand years, is ONE BIG GIGANTIC LIE!. Based on the cult of Julius Caesar the Papacy has rocked the world with incessant hatreds and wars....Read for yourself!

[backwalk]

Isn't he the earliest born human being to be captured on film? He was born in 1810, right?

[altosuzuki]

troppo forte Papa Leone... fosse vissuto oggi avrebbe bucato lo schermo

[dejs66]

Wow - I'm not sure what the Holy Father was on, but you don't get Papal Blessings like that any more!!

[bass0111]

Spectacular! Thanks/grazie for posting!

Mike H.

[moonbase65]

Who's similar that particular face?

Answert to questions like this?

I'll never forget this kind of magic.