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.
Christianization is the process or result of the conversion to Christianity. Christianization has, for the most part, spread through missions by individual conversions, but has also been the result of
Christianisation of the Germanic peoples
…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 paganism had…
The Baptism of Christ (Piero della Francesca)
A baptism at an Evangelical church
The Communion of the Apostles by James Tissot
Confirmation class of 1918 at Cape Mount