Jesus and Charlemagne shared the honor of people following them during their time through reason and trust. Their followers were not along through force. Jesus gained his followers through the speaking of the Gospel. The Gospel influenced the people he spoke to and motivated them to follow alongside Jesus. During the time of Charlemagne kingdoms attempted to dominate other kingdoms, these kingdoms were dominated by use of force, although he did gain associates through ways besides …show more content…
Charlemagne made it to mass everyday and made sure to participate in morning and evening prayer in the basilica. The basilica was one of his projects that he built, along with the basilica, he helped build and restore many other churches. Charlemagne and the Franks were already Christians and their way of expanding Christianity was through having their enemies convert to Christianity after being defeated by them. For example, when the Franks had defeated the Saxons, the Saxons were expected to join the Christian faith. “ … so that they might give up their ancestral religion and the worship of demons and receive the Christian faith and sacraments” (Murry, Einhard, 297). Although they were forced into the Christian religion, and most did not favor the religion, this led to a growth of Christianity in the few people that did accept the