Identifier: historyofancient03good (find matches)
Title: A history of the ancient world, for high schools and academies
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Goodspeed, George Stephen, 1860-1905
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s leader of western Christendom the papacyentered upon the most important task of winning the bar-barians for the true faith. Some of these peoples werealready Christians, although in the Arian form (§ 494).Others were still pagan. In the work of conversionthe popes employed the monks, whose freedom fromfamily ties and zeal for the Gospel made them admir-able instruments for this purpose. The leading spiritin this movement was Pope Gregory I (a.d. 590-604),to whom is due the sending of a missionary monk to Eng-land. Its result was not merely the conversion of theAngles and Saxons who had entered and occupied theland, but their acceptance of the primacy of the pope.Another famous missionary whom the popes sent outwas Boniface (a.d. 718), through whose labors the Ger-mans across the Rhine were converted and churchesorganized among them. 516. The Franks, however, were to prove the mostpotent allies of the popes in their progress toward head- * Robinson, History of Western Europe, p. 52.
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The Pope and the Franks 441 ship in the west. Clovis embraced orthodox Christianityon the occasion of his victory over the Alamanni (§ 509),and ranged his people on the side of the papacy. Christi-anity flourished exceedingly among them, although the The Frankspurity of life among the priests and bishops was not on a ^^^^^par with that of the doctrine. When, however, Boniface,having completed his labors among the Germans, soughtto reform the Frankish church, he found a helper inCharles Martel. The decisive step was taken in a.d. 748,when the bishops of Gaul agreed to uphold the ortho-dox faith and obey the commands of the pope at Rome.Thus the strongest force in the new world was won forChrist and the Roman Church. Henceforth the history Acceptanceof the Franks and the papacy were inseparably connected. sL^remac When Charles Martel died, his mayorial power washanded on to his two sons, Karloman and Pippin. Theformer soon retired to a monastery, leaving Pippin alonein the office. Deem

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