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Christianisation

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Noun1.Christianisation - conversion to Christianity
conversion - a change of religion; "his conversion to the Catholic faith"


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Sultan Mohammad Dipatuan Kudarat repelled Spanish rule and hindred the spread of Christianisation in Maguindanao province in the south 80 years after the Spanish rule began in 1521.
The Christian celebration of "Christmas" was only formalized in the middle of the fifth century (450 AD/CE), when Emperor Julius I "assimilated the festival with that of the birth of Mithra (December 25), in order to facilitate the more complete Christianisation of the empire.
Wenceslas appears as a prince who has a fundamental meaning for Czech statehood: in consolidating the state on the map of Europe he preferred diplomacy to war, and when war was unavoidable he fought alone man to man and spared the troops; he encouraged the Christianisation of pagan Bohemia and preserved both the Western and Eastern liturgies; he was himself a pious Christian who took down gallows and freed slaves, a warrior against the pagans and so on and so forth.
 
 
 
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