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And now, on with the show. This episode is brought to you

by Lux Coffee, caffeinating the new christenum with artisan roast coffee. On Christmas Day in the

year 496, following the Battle of Tolback, where Clovis, King of the Franks first called on the

name of Christ, he affirmed the Nicene Creed and received the

Trinitarian baptism by the Bishop of Reims. 3,000 of his warriors were baptized with him that day,

and the Franks, the most pivotal of the Germanic tribes, began to be Christianized. Like Constantine

before him, the conversion of Clovis to the Christian faith affected more than his own salvation.

His country and his countrymen would follow his leadership, and a few centuries later,

in the year 800, his descendant, Charlemagne the Great, would be crowned Holy Roman Emperor

in remembrance of his forbear and an honor and reverence of the king of all kings on Christmas

Day. With the crowning of

Charlemagne, a tradition was founded which many Christian kingdoms would honor for centuries

to come, the Christmas Day coronation of kings. This tradition of Christmas coronations began

with Charlemagne in 800 AD and continued all the way up to King Charles IV, the last King of Hungary

in 1916.

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