Christianisation

Christianisation The Lombards were first touched by Christianity while still in Pannonia, but only touched: Their conversion and Christianisation was largely nominal and far from complete.

She omits any reference to the SNP and Greens' political de-Christianisation and demoralisation of Scotland.

This week it called the ban comparable to "persecutions in the Roman Empire in the times of Nero and Diocletian, the so-called de-Christianisation of France and atheist repressions in the Soviet Union".

Bishop Crowther, a Yoruba man from the Ife language space, returned to the country after capture from Freetown, Sierra Leone and was pivotal in the Christianisation of the lower Niger area from the 1840s.

After the Christianisation of Scandinavia the celebration was allowed as long as it was in the name of Christ instead.

Christianisation of Hungarians for example influenced burial rite and customs like inhumation with horse parts and tacks.sfn The archaeological research has also significantly changed the view on the settlement of the northern parts of the country.

Christianisation The apostle Paul is reported to have converted the people of Cyprus to Christianity.

Christianisation went slowly in Asturias without supplanting the ancient pagan divinities.

In any case, the changeover was gradual and by 330, when Constantine inaugurated his new capital, the process of hellenization and increasing Christianisation was already under way.

Marjatta's nature, impregnation and searching for a place to give birth are in allegory to the Virgin Mary and the Christianisation of Finland.

One such example was the Christianisation of Iceland in 1000, where the Althing decreed, in order to prevent an invasion, that all Icelanders must be baptized, and forbade celebration of pagan rituals.

The evangelisation, or Christianisation, of the Slavs was initiated by one of Byzantium's most learned churchmen — the Patriarch Photius.