19-The Sealing of the Papal-Frankish Alliance

Dr. John Rao discusses the sealing of the Papal-Frankish Alliance. The years around 750 A.D. were crucial ones for the final sealing of the alliance of Rome and the Carolingian Family. Rome needed a protection from the Lombards which iconoclast emperors in the East could not give. Pippin wanted to be named King of the Franks. St. Isidore of Seville had already provided the argument for what came next. 

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