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Plato and Aristotle, Fresco from The School of Athens in the Apostolic Palace, Vatican City. Virtuous pagan is a concept in Christian theology that addressed the fate of the unlearned—the issue of nonbelievers who were never evangelized and consequently during their lifetime had no opportunity to recognize Christ, but nevertheless led virtuous lives, so that it seemed objectionable to ...
The Persian king brings in Aphroditian, a learned pagan, to serve as moderator and judge of the debate; Aphroditian proceeds to agree with the Christians and lauds them as correct. One of the pieces of evidence Aphroditian brings up in favor of the Christians is the account of the Magi and their travels inscribed on golden tablets, which is ...
A marble statue of Jupiter, king of the Roman gods. Paganism (from Latin pāgānus 'rural', 'rustic', later 'civilian') is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, [1] or ethnic religions other than Judaism.
Thuận was born in Huế in 1928, the son of Nguyễn Văn Ấm and Elizabeth Ngô Đình Thị Hiệp, daughter of Ngô Đình Khả. [5] He joined the seminary at An Ninh as a teenager, and was ordained a priest on 11 June 1953, by Monsignor Jean-Baptiste Urrutia. [5]
Vietnamese Martyrs (Vietnamese: Các Thánh Tử đạo Việt Nam), also known as the Martyrs of Tonkin and Cochinchina, collectively Martyrs of Annam or formerly Martyrs of Indochina, are saints of the Catholic Church who were canonized by Pope John Paul II.
The elk is a common image in many Baltic Finnic petroglyphs. [note 1]Baltic Finnic paganism, or Baltic Finnic polytheism was the indigenous religion of the various of the Baltic Finnic peoples, specifically the Finns, Estonians, Võros, Setos, Karelians, Veps, Izhorians, Votes and Livonians, prior to Christianisation.
Our Lady of La Vang (Vietnamese: Đức Mẹ La Vang) refers to a reported Marian apparition at a time when Catholics were persecuted and killed in Vietnam.The Shrine of our Lady of La Vang (Basilica of Our Lady of La Vang) is situated in what is today Hải Phú commune in Hải Lăng District of Quảng Trị Province in Central Vietnam.
Circassian paganism, also called Khabzeism or Khabzism, is the ethnic religion of the Circassians.It is based on worshipping the supreme god Theshkhue (Тхьэшхуэ) and other minor [citation needed] deities under his rule, to each of whom is attributed an element, action or item of veneration and control.