lace.

Theodosius was much shocked to find how his passionate words had been
obeyed, and the good Bishop of Milan, St. Ambrose, made him wait as a
penitent, cut off from the Holy Communion, while he was thus stained with
blood, until after many months his repentance could be accepted, and he
could be forgiven.

[Picture: Obelisk of Theodosius, Constantinople] After Theodosius died,
the Western half of the empire was overrun and conquered by tribes of
German nations, but the Eastern part still remained, and emperor after
emperor reigned at Constantinople, ruling over the Greek cities as
before; but there were savage tribes of the Slavonian race who settled in
Thrace, and spread over Thessaly. They were called Bulgarians, and used
to send marauders all over the country to the south, so that they were
much dreaded by the Greeks, who had long forgotten how to fight for
themselves.

But though the Eastern and Western empires were broken apart, the Church
was one. The Greeks, indeed, found fault with the Romans for putting
three words into the Creed of Nicea which had not been decided on by the
consent of the whole Church in Council, and there was a question between
the Pope of Rome and the Patriarch of Constantinople as to which had the
chief rule. At last their disputes in the eleventh century caused a
schism, or ruling apart, and the Greek Church became separated from the
Roman Church.

[Picture: An Amphitheatre--see page 312]

CHAP. XLI.--THE FRANK CONQUEST. 1201-1446.

[Picture: Decorative chapter heading]

There is very little to tell about Greece for hundreds of years. It was
a part of the Eastern Empire, and was for the most part in a quiet state,
except when robbers came against it. The Bulgarians came from the North,
but after they had become Christian they were somewhat less dangerous.
From the East and South came Saracens and Moors, who had been converted
to the faith of the false Arabian prophet Mahommed; and from the West
came the Northmen, all the way from Norway and Denmark, to rob the very
east end of the Mediterranean, so that beautiful old ornaments, evidently
made in Greece, have been found in the northern homes that once belonged
to these sea-kings.

The Greeks had little spirit to fight, and the emperors took some of
these stout Northmen into their pay against the Bulgarians and Saracens,
calling them their Varangian Guard. Another band, of north