ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 28th of January WELCOME! BLESSED CHARLEMAGNE, EMPEROR Blessed Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, son of king Pepin [and Berta ], was born in 742; and crowned king of France in 768; but his youngest brother Carloman reigned in Austrasia till his death, in 771. HE WAS CROWNED KING OF LOMBARDY Charlemagne vanquished Hunauld, duke of Aquitaine, and conquered the French Gothia or Landguedoc; subdued Lombardy; conferred on Pope Adrian the exarchite of Ravenna, the duchy of Spoleto and many other dominions; took Pavia, (which had been honoured with the residence of twenty kings,) and was crowned king of Lombardy in 774. HE CONQUERED BARCELONA AND OTHER PLACES The emir Abderamene in Spain, having shaken off the yoke of the caliph of the Saracens, in 736, and established his kingdom at Cordova, and other emirs in Spain setting up independency, Charlemagne, in 778, marched as far as the Ebro and Saragossa, conquere...