O wondrous power of the cross!

O unspeakable glory of the passion 

    which became the Lord’s tribunal, the world’s judgment, 

    and the power of the Crucified!

From Your cross You draw all things to Yourself, O Lord!

When You stretched out Your hands to an unbelieving people that mocked You,

    the whole world was finally brought to confess Your majesty. . . .

In this way type gave way to truth, prophecy to revelation,

    the ancient law to the gospel.

You drew all things to Yourself, Lord, 

    so that what previously was performed 

         in the one temple of the Jews in mystic signs

    is now celebrated everywhere by holy men

         in every country in revealing rites. . . .

Your cross is the font of all blessings, the source of all graces,

    and through it the believers receive strength in return for weakness,

    glory in return for shame, life in return for death.

 

Pope Leo the Great, c.400-461, influenced the Chalcedonian Creed and Attila the Hun

 

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So he delivered him over to them to be crucified.  So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.”