The Germanic peoples underwent gradual Christianisation in the course of late antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. By AD 700 England and Francia were officially Christian, and by 1100 Germanic paganis
9th-century depiction of Christ as a heroic warrior (Stuttgart Psalter, fol. 23, illustration of Psalm 91:13)
Figure carved on the 7th-century CE Frankish grave stele called the Niederdollendorf stone, the earliest material witness of Christian presence in the German Rhineland. It presumably depicts Christ as a heroic warrior wielding a lance, with a halo or crown of rays emanating from his head.