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2 unusual facts about Western Christianity


Guillaume Desautels

The Catholic knights won the field and thus saved Cluny, which had been (until St. Peter's in Rome just recently built) the greatest church in Western Christendom from the hands of the Protestants — only to be destroyed 200 years later by the republican mobs of the French Revolution.

Latin Europe

Western Christianity, the areas of Europe where Latin was used as the liturgical language of the church during the Middle Ages


Anglican sacraments

In keeping with its prevailing self-identity as a via media or "middle path" of Western Christianity, Anglican sacramental theology expresses elements in keeping with its status as a church in the Catholic tradition and a church of the Reformation.

Dominus vobiscum

Dominus vobiscum, a Latin phrase meaning "The Lord be with you", is an ancient salutation and blessing traditionally used by the clergy in the Roman Catholic Mass, as well as in the liturgies of other Western Christian denominations.

Religion in Hungary

Hungary's first king, Saint Stephen I, took up Western Christianity, although his mother, Sarolt, was baptized in the Eastern Rite.


see also

Glossary of Christianity

Western Christianity so names its Greek scriptures to distinguish them from the Hebrew scriptures ("Old Testament").

Latinisation

Liturgical Latinisation, the adoption of practices from Western Christianity by the Eastern Churches

Sōsaku-hanga

Sadao Watanabe worked in the mingei (folk art) tradition, synthesizing Buddhist figure portrayal and Western Christianity in his unique Biblical prints.