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Christianization of saints [ edit ] Historian Peter Brown , in his The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity , argued that one cannot equate the ancient cults of pagan gods with the later cults of the saints. [ 1 ]
The Christianization of sites that had been pagan occurred as a result of conversions in early ... as prominent features were rededicated to Christian saints, ...
Christianization (or Christianisation) is a term for the specific type of change that occurs when someone or something has been or is being converted to Christianity. Christianization has, for the most part, spread through missions by individual conversions, but has also, in some instances, been the result of violence by individuals and groups ...
Denmark has several saints, canonized by local bishops as was the custom in early Scandinavia or revered by locals as saints. Often these saints derive their veneration from deeds associated with the Christianization of Denmark. Viborg has St Kjeld, Aarhus has St Niels (also called St Nickolas), Odense has St Canute (Danish: Sanct Knud).
"The Life of Saint Adalbert Bishop of Prague and Martyr (Translated by Cristian Gaşpar)" (2013). In Saints of the Christianization Age of Central Europe (Tenth-Eleventh Centuries) (Edited by Gábor Klaniczay, translated by Cristian Gaşpar and Marina Miladinov, with an introductory essay by Ian Wood) [Central European Medieval Texts, Volume 6 ...
The Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England was the process starting in the late 6th century by which population of England formerly adhering to the Anglo-Saxon, and later Nordic, forms of Germanic paganism converted to Christianity and adopted Christian worldviews.
It was an outgrowth of the Christianization of Moravia, traditionally attributed to the Byzantine missionaries, Saints Cyril and Methodius, in 863. [3] At first, the Christian rite in Bohemia was the Slavic one of the Eastern Orthodox Church , but it was soon replaced by the Roman Catholic rite, introduced due to Western influences, and also ...
This article contains a full list of the saints canonized in the 21st century. ( 2001–2100 ) These saints have received recognition as saint (through canonization ) by the following popes of the Roman Catholic Church :