Earliest-Born Person (1810) Ever Captured on Film. Pope Leo XIII. (1896) Colorized. _ Leo was the head of the Roman Catholic Church (1878–1903) “who brought a new spirit to the papacy, manifested in more conciliatory positions toward civil governments, by care taken that the church not be opposed to scientific progress and by an awareness of the pastoral and social needs of the times.” Rerum Novarum, issued by him in 1891 and considered by many conservative Roman Catholics to be extremely progre