History of the Christianization of Europe

After Clovis took over France and Germany in the 700's AD, and Charles Martel defeated the Muslims on 711, there came a son named after Charles Martel's father also named Pepin. His son was Charles the Great or Charlemagne. Charlemagne battled for the cross of Jesus, as it seemed there needed to be something in common to rally behind to defeat the Muslims. He also fought against all these various Pagan European groups, like the Saxons. The few Pagans that were able to resist became known as the Norsemen, or the Vikings. They eventually made a encampment in Greenland. They were the same people as Charlemagne, but they resisted the cross of Jesus as their banner.

05 Nov 08 6:28 pm
The Origin of Time

So, as Charlemagne pressed Europe grapes and made Jesus juice with it, he had a crony whom battled for him in England. His name was Egbert, and became the first King of England, when St Patrick and St Albans were not enough in the reformation and exclusion of the Pagans.

In the North of England, where there was a Monastery, there was a monk by the name of Venerable Bede whom translated many volumes and wrote close to 40 volumes in his lifetime. This Monk Bede, dated all of his works relative to the birth of Jesus, and so by the year 775 (or so) it began to become commonplace to date time according to when Jesus was born and this is where we get our calendar.

10 Nov 08 7:36 pm
StarT of the Crusades

And then a pilgrim, Peter the Hermit, from Jerusalem returned to Europe complaining of his inability to prowl the Holy Land under the rule of the new Seljuk Turks that took over Turkey from the Eastern Roman Empire. He preached with a giant cross on his back, on a mule, and barefoot. There had been a blight on the land and pestilence, so when these people began moving from the Atlantic Ocean, it became the Crusades. Three waves of people made it into Byzantium or the Roman Empire in the East, but they were wiped out, once by the Hungarians for their devilishness, once by the Emperor of the East himself, and then he let two waves pass through onto Turkey were the mob was massacred.

The Normans, whom in the 11th Century had taken gains all across Europe, sacking Rome for the fun of it, are better known as the Vikings, heard of the atrocities of the loss of the first 3 Crusades in one year, assembled as Knights and fought into Jerusalem, freeing it for pilgrimage.

After the Childrens' Crusade which had no number, there came a failed 5th Crusade that only returned from Damietta with the vestiges of the True Cross.

"This Crusade aimed at the conquest of Egypt, because Jerusalem was now held by an Egyptian Sultan; it remnants returned in 1221, after an inglorious evacuation of its one capture Damietta, with the Jerusalem vestiges of the True Cross as a sort of consolation concession on the part of the victor...

...Fragments of the True Cross, had always been in Rome at the Church of Santa Croce-in-Gerusalemme, since the days of the Empress Helena (the Mother of Constantine the Great) , to whom says the legend its hiding place had been revealed in a vision during her pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

"The custody of the True Cross" says Gibbon "which on Easter Sunday was solemnly exposed to the people, was entrusted to the Bishop of Jerusalem; and he alone might gratify the curious devotion of the Pilgrims by the gift of small pieces which they encased in gold or gems, and carried away in triumph to their respective countries."

HG WELLS The Outline of History pg 677

It is said, though the cross was diminished greatly every Sunday, had powers of vegetation to regrow, obviously a scam...

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06 Dec 08 5:27 pm
Envoys of Christendom

So with the true cross so fractured, the little pieces of Jesus were his Lateran later Vatican ensemble. When the West was being challenged by the new Mongol Horde of Ghengis Khan, the first of three great Khans, the Moslem world and the Christian world came together with the help of Fredrick the Great whom spoke Islamic even though he was the Holy Roman Emperor. The Islamic leader agreed to fight would be handing the West to the Mongols, so one of the Crusades went without an arrow fired.

However, in Silesia, an area of Poland, there was a German army and a Polish army destroyed by the Mongols, whom lived off the milk and blood of the horses they so expert equestrian rode and fired a bow on the fly from. Now it was over, Ghengis died, and for a time there was a dispute over who would rule the Mongols, so the Western powers recouped, luckily the terrain that stretched to France through Germany was hilled and studded with trees and was inadvantageous to battle with a horse much like tanks not faring well in such environ. And an Egyptian Sultan soon defeated Hulagu's general when they tried to take Africa, even though they never considered invading India, the land already circumspected and circumvalled by a Chinese traveler, a famed one who lived off his own piss in the desert, and retired as a Buddhist monk. Hulagu was the brother of the new and last Great Khan Kublai, who held the land of China for close to a hundred years in a short dynastic period.

The Popes were entertained by the thought of the Shamanistic Mongols being godless, and sent two Dominican friars dressed in black to China to meet with Kublai to convert his horde, but the Friars turned back when they found the stretch of land impassable. However, two of the party stayed on course and made it thru to Kublai, they were I believe the uncle and the father of Marco Polo. After some time they turned back with orders to bring holy items from Jerusalem to Kublai.

The rest of the story was told from a jail where, Marco Polo was kept in the late 13th Century after a war between Genoa and Venice, he was a Venetian. There was a writer by the name of Rusticano ( I believe ) who copied down Marco Polo's unknown tale. Marco Polo died in that prison, I read that book about his travels, which were expedited by a golden tablet which proclaimed that the bearer of the tablet had free realm over the dominions of the Great Khan. THey stayed there for 16 or so years, and Marco so good with the Tartar language eventually got jobs as a minister and governor and was apart of some council kept in records of China or India, from the year 1277, or there-about. Now, they were so lavishly well kempt that upon the dwindling health of Kublai Khan, they wanted to make a quick retreat or face the threat of assassination, but Kublai did not let his court go, it was a novelty to have Latins in attendance. But when the Babylonian holdings of one of his brothers requested a bride from the same tribe as his dead wife, there had to be sent back to Baghdad back a bride to be of seventeen. They needed someone to bring them back so by the way of the back of Cathay, the old name of China, they took a slow boat with the bride and made the getaway. You see, the groom in waiting had made a promise to his wife on his death bed he would wed a woman from the same tribe as she.

Marco Polo and family got back to Venice but were refused entry onto the premises of their houses, seeing the strange grab they were adorned, but the tales all rang true when emeralds and rubies spilled from the billows of their silk clothes. How gun powder almost made the Mongols victorious in the west, was not how the west was won but how it was almost lost, and these tales spun from Uncle and Father's lips brought them a rousing welcome home, but it was not until the book came out that the 14th Century heard of a knew of the great Marco Polo.