On such a feast as this we could not do better than repeat summarily his account of the Franks. “How,” says he, “can we help admiring that Providence which is never wanting to the Church? From the midst of tribes still pagan, on the morrow of the irremediable fal of the Empire, God forms to himself a new people, raises unto himself a prince: against these must break the rising tide of heretics and Barbarians. Such, in truth, appeared in the course of ages the divine mission of the Frankish kings.
Hazijulikani katika siku zetu ni kama namna ya historia maandishi; Tena jambo hili lilikuwa mtazamo zilizochukuliwa na historia ya kwanza ya Kanisa, na zaidi. On sikukuu kama huu tunaweza kufanya vizuri zaidi kuliko kurudia papo akaunti yake ya Franks. “”Jinsi gani,”” anasema, “”tunaweza kusaidia admiring kwamba Providence ambayo ni kamwe kutaka Kanisa? Kutoka katikati ya makabila bado wapagani, siku ya pili yake ya fal irremediable ya Dola, Mungu fomu kwa watu wapya mwenyewe, inaibua nafsi yake mkuu; juu ya hao lazima kuvunja wimbi la wazushi na Wenyeji. Vile, kwa kweli, alionekana katika mwendo wa umri ujumbe Mungu wa wafalme Frankish.