• Gaul was an important early center of Latin Christianity during late antiquity and the Merovingian period. By the middle of the 3rd century, there were...
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    Christianity in Gaul for the 4th-century ecclesiastical dioceses in Roman Gaul The Diocese of Gaul (Latin: Dioecesis Galliarum, "diocese of the Gaul [province]s")...
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    Gaul (Latin: Gallia) was a region of Western Europe first clearly described by the Romans, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts...
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    Gaul refers to Gaul under provincial rule in the Roman Empire from the 1st century BC to the 5th century AD. The Roman Republic's influence began in southern...
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  • Arianism (redirect from Arian Christianity)
    Clovis I of the Franks, and Æthelberht of Kent and others in Britain (see also Christianity in Gaul and Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England). The remaining...
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    coming as the Messiah was prophesied in the Hebrew Bible (called the Old Testament in Christianity) and chronicled in the New Testament. It is the world's...
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    Gregory of Tours (category 6th-century writers in Latin)
    the Christian religion into Gaul. Next, Gregory covers the history of Christianity in Gaul and some of the major events in Roman-Gallo relations. It ends...
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    reported in Tunisia and Gaul (modern-day France) 80(+/−20)? Gospel of Matthew, theoretically based on Mark and Q, most popular in early Christianity 80(+/−20)...
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    persecution in Lyon. The emperor Theodosius I (r. 379-95) makes Christianity the official state religion of the Roman Empire in 380. In 496, Remigius...
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    Clovis I (category Converts to Christianity from Germanic paganism)
    all of Gaul. Nicene Christianity offered certain advantages to Clovis as he fought to distinguish his rule among many competing power centers in Western...
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  • The mythologies in present-day France encompass the mythology of the Gauls, Franks, Normans, Bretons, and other peoples living in France, those ancient...
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    countryside of Tuscany, and in the west the river Loire had become the effective northern boundary of Roman Gaul. In the east of Gaul the Franks controlled...
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    representative of so-called Celtic Christianity. Monastic spirituality came to Britain and then Ireland from Gaul, by way of Lérins, Tours, and Auxerre...
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  • referring to: Gaul, ancient nation encompassing modern-day France and parts of surrounding countries Gauls, the principal people of Gaul Gaulish language...
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  • Early Christianity, otherwise called the Early Church or Paleo-Christianity, describes the historical era of the Christian religion up to the First Council...
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    mentioned in Paul's epistles. Early Christianity was in Gaul, North Africa, and the city of Rome. It spread (in its Arian form) in the Germanic world during the...
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    Franks" in the Roman army of northern Gaul. By 509 they had united all the Franks and northern Gallo-Romans under their rule. They conquered most of Gaul, defeating...
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    Caesarius of Arles (category 6th-century writers in Latin)
    ecclesiastic of his generation in Merovingian Gaul. Caesarius is considered to be of the last generation of church leaders of Gaul who worked to integrate large-scale...
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    Celts (section Gaul)
    peoples in Europe and Anatolia, identified by their use of Celtic languages and other cultural similarities. Major Celtic groups included the Gauls; the...
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    generally amicable, even after the establishment of Christianity in Gaul. The Christian clergy participated in some Jewish feasts; intermarriage between Jews...
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    Catholicism being the main denomination with 47.8%. Early Christianity was already present among the Gauls by the 2nd century; Irenaeus, bishop of Lugdunum (Lyon)...
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    of Gaul, also known as the Islamic invasion of Gaul, refers to a series of military campaigns by Muslim forces to expand their territory into Gaul (modern-day...
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    Christianity in the Middle Ages covers the history of Christianity from the fall of the Western Roman Empire (c. 476). The end of the period is variously...
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    Western Christianity is one of two subdivisions of Christianity (Eastern Christianity being the other). Western Christianity is composed of the Latin Church...
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    west into Gaul. Clovis converted to Christianity and put himself on good terms with the powerful Church and with his Gallo-Roman subjects. In a thirty-year...
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    Lugdunum (redirect from Capital of gaul)
    France) was an important Roman city in Gaul, established on the current site of Lyon. The Roman city was founded in 43 BC by Lucius Munatius Plancus, but...
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    Apostasy in Christianity is the repudiation of Christ and the central teachings of Christianity by someone who formerly was a Christian (Christ-follower)...
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  • Gallican Rite (category Christianity in Francia)
    well established in the Roman civil diocese of Gaul, which had a few early centers of Christianity in the south. Ireland is also known to have had a form...
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    Franks (section Christianity)
    his son Clovis I founded the Merovingian dynasty which succeeded in unifying most of Gaul under its rule during the 6th century following the collapse of...
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    remaining strong in the late 4th century despite Christianity increasingly being adopted during this time in western Roman provinces such as Gaul, where Martin...
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