The adoption of Christianity in Ethiopia dates tothe fourth-century reign of the Aksumite emperor Ezana. ... Frumentius sought out Christian Roman merchants, was converted, and later became the first bishop of Aksum. At the very least, this story suggests that Christianity was brought to Aksum...
That storyteller's name was Hans Christian Andersen.He was born in Denmark.He wrote more than 150 stories,which are told in many countries.He became the first author to write and publish(出版、发行)his own fairy tales.Andersen grew up poor.His father was a shoemaker,and ...
Chapter 4 recounts the dream Constantine had the night before his victory at the battle of the Milvian Bridge: in his sleep the Emperor saw the `Christogram' (a symbol made of the first two letters of Christ's name, the Greek X and P) and heard God saying: `By this sign, you ...
The conversion of Paul the Apostle was a watershed moment in Christianity. Here’s how his efforts to spread the faith jumpstarted what is now the world’s largest religion.
An open abuse of the deities, to which most people in Rus' bowed in reverence in those times, triggered widespread indignation. A mob killed the Christian Fyodor and his son Ioann (later, after the overall christening of Kievan Rus, people came to regard these two as the first Christian ma...
belief. His Imperial Majesty was met off the plane in Kingston by Mortimer Planno, the Rastafarian teacher and philosopher who was one of the key figures in the faith, and who was able to calm the devotees – 100,000 of them by some estimates – who had come to greet the Emperor. ...
That storyteller's name was Hans Christian Andersen.(1) AHe wrote more than 150 stories,which are told in many countries.He became the first author to write and publish his own fairy tales.Andersen grew up poor.His father was a shoemaker,and his mother could hardly read....
the Japanese systematically imposed rule on the declining Joseon Dynasty. This culminated in the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty of 1910, in which the Emperor of Korea formally ceded all authority to the Emperor of Japan... though he refused to sign it himself and instead sent an ambassador to ...
I became passionately attached to a youth whom the emperor also fancied. Me enamoré apasionadamente de un jovencito que también había llamado la atención del emperador. Literature After I married Rosita, I became a very serious Christian. Después de casarme con Rosita me convertí en un...
While they may not have had an ideal life under Muslim rule, they were happier than they had been under Christian domination for three hundred years. Many Copts became Muslims after the Arab conquest; some converted because they like Islam, some sought material gain, still others reacted to ...