Word: heathenism
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...conquering Spaniards did not blood-bathe the heathen Mexicans as the Inquisition destroyed heretics in Spain. Instead, Crown & Church at first tried to make good Christians and Spanish citizens out of them. Twenty of the 190 coats-of-arms granted during the conquest of Mexico and South America were given to Indians, and Spaniards often married Indian "princesses" under the delusion that the Aztec nobility, like that of Europe, was hereditary (actually it was earned). As great a blow to the Aztecs as the Spanish conquest was the English victory over the Armada. Mexican communication with the Crown & Church...
...their faith. China is today the only great non-Christian State with a Christian head. The conversion of Constantine is not the only case where through political events Christianity has come into sudden power after long years of struggling growth. After the victory at Tolbiac 1,445 years ago, heathen Clovis and his army of 3,000 Franks were baptized in gratitude. Something not far different might occur in China. If anything should happen to bring the U.S. and Britain into active shooting war at China's side, enthusiasm for their allies might make millions of Chinese receptive converts...
...Barbara, a beauteous Middle East virgin of the Third Century, was kept in a tower by her stern, heathen father, one Dioscorus. Be fore leaving on a journey, he ordered a bath house for her, with two windows. In his absence, she got the architect to make it three windows. When her father returned, she confessed the three windows were for the Trinity: she had become a Christian. Dioscorus had her tortured, sentenced to die, himself beheaded her. On his way home from court he was struck by lightning, burned to death. Thereafter people, especially gunners and miners, called...
...quiet and completely civilized valley of the Charles, President Conant sponsored the highly successful system of National Scholarships. The latest brain child sprung from the sturdy loins of University Hall, the University Committee on Educational Relations, seems to be another step in spreading the gospel of Harvard among the heathen...
...Lewis Thomas Wattson he was called 46 years ago, when he was a minister of the Episcopal Church. Within the framework of that church he founded, 40 years ago, his order which followed the Franciscan rule and dress, and aimed to send out missionaries to the heathen. In 1909 he took the Society of the Atonement (17 members) and its affiliated Sis ters of the Atonement into the Roman Church. Under his Franciscan name of Father Paul James Francis, he was ordained to the priesthood...