Her devout labors still left room for the industry and success of future missionaries, and many cities of Italy were still disputed by hostile bishops. He mentions their recent conversion to Christianity, and their final adoption of the Catholic faith instead of Arianism, thus: “Gregory the spiritual conqueror of Britain encouraged the pious Theodelinda, queen of the Lombards, to propagate the Nicene faith among the victorious savages, whose recent Christianity was polluted by the Arian heresy. In the same chapter, he names another nation, the Lombards after their removal from the Danube to Italy. The Franks and the Saxons still persevered in the errors of paganism but the Franks obtained the monarchy of Gaul by their submission to the example of Clovis, and the Saxon conquerors of Britain were reclaimed from their savage superstition by the missionaries of Rome.” 1 GEP 677.2ģ. During the same period, Christianity was embraced by almost all the barbarians, who established their kingdoms on the ruins of the Western Empire: the Burgundians in Gaul, the Suevi in Spain, the Vandals in Africa, the Ostrogoths in Pannonia, and the various bands of mercenaries, that raised Odoacer to the throne of Italy. In their long and victorious march from the Danube to the Atlantic Ocean, they converted their allies they educated the rising generation and the devotion which reigned in the camp of Alaric, or the court of Toulouse, might edify or disgrace the palaces of Rome and Constantinople. Eight of these are designated by Gibbon in a single paragraph in giving the history of the conversion of the barbarians, he says: “The formidable Visigoths universally adopted the religion of the Romans, with whom they maintained a perpetual intercourse of war, of friendship, or of conquest. The ten are the Alemanni, the Franks, the Burgundians, the Suevi, the Vandals, the Visigoths, the Saxons, the Ostrogoths, the Lombards, and the Heruli. WE have now described the origin, traced the course, and marked the establishment, of the ten kingdoms that arose upon the destruction of the Western Empire of Rome. The Ten Stand at One Time-Mede’s List of the Kingdoms-Sir Isaac Newton’s List-Lists of Bishops Newton and Chandler-Hunnish Empire Extinguished-The Gepidae and the Avars-What Machiavelli Himself Says-Bishop Lloyd’s Dates-The Conclusion
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