Excerpt from The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages, Vol. 12 OF all the countries in the Near East, the one in which the Papacy had perhaps the greatest interest was Hungary.l Ever since their conversion to Christianity at the end of the tenth century, the Hungarians had been specially attached to the Holy See. Their sainted sovereign King Stephen I., who stands to them as Alfred the Great stands to us, or as St. Louis IX. Stands to the French, had received his crown from Rome, and his successors had in turn been loyal to the Popes, owning allegiance to them, and supporting them energetically in the work of the Crusades. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.