36 events with tag "conversion"
583 BC
ID: 4650
Zoroaster converts King Vishtaspa - Zoroastrianism becomes state religion in Bactria
ID: 4650
260 BC
ID: 3679
Ashoka embraces Buddhism - begins rule by dharma, erects pillars with edicts promoting non-violence
ID: 3679
134 BC
ID: 2986
John Hyrcanus becomes ruler - expands territory, forcibly converts Idumeans (Edom) to Judaism, including Herod's ancestors
ID: 2986
130
ID: 4825
Justin Martyr converts to Christianity - after studying Stoicism, Aristotelianism, Pythagoreanism, and Platonism
ID: 4825
130
ID: 4869
Aquila the Proselyte's motivations - Convert to Judaism creates translation after Christians use LXX prophecies effectively
ID: 4869
175
ID: 3847
St. Eleutherius becomes thirteenth pope - receives request from British king Lucius for missionaries
ID: 3847
197
ID: 4147
Tertullian converts to Christianity - brilliant lawyer becomes Christian apologist, creates Latin theological vocabulary
ID: 4147
375
ID: 3782
St. Moses the Ethiopian enters Scetis - former brigand becomes desert monk, demonstrates radical conversion
ID: 3782
384
ID: 5064
Augustine abandons Manichaeism - moves to Rome then Milan, influenced by skeptical philosophy before Christian conversion
ID: 5064
386
ID: 3822
St. Augustine's conversion - 'Take and read' in Milan garden, reads Romans 13:13-14
ID: 3822
387
ID: 5065
Death of St. Monica at Ostia - dies after seeing Augustine's conversion, her prayers answered after years of weeping
ID: 5065
493
ID: 5255
Genevieve influences Clovis through Queen Clotilde - helps persuade Frankish king toward Christianity before his conversion
ID: 5255
496
ID: 2819
Battle of Tolbiac - Clovis facing defeat against Alamanni, vows to convert if Christian God gives victory, Alamanni flee
ID: 2819
590
ID: 4816
Lombards begin converting to Catholicism - Queen Theodelinda leads conversion from Arianism
ID: 4816
597
ID: 2542
Augustine arrives in Kent - sent by Pope Gregory to convert English, Ethelbert of Kent converts
ID: 2542
627
ID: 2544
King Edwin of Northumbria converts to Christianity - Paulinus baptizes him at York, northern England begins conversion
ID: 2544
878
ID: 2556
Treaty of Wedmore - Guthrum converts to Christianity, England divided between Wessex and Danelaw
ID: 2556
965
ID: 3744
Harald Bluetooth converts Denmark to Christianity - erects Jelling stone declaring he 'made the Danes Christian'
ID: 3744
988
ID: 3714
Vladimir I converts Kievan Rus' to Christianity - mass baptism in Dnieper River, end of Viking paganism in Russia
ID: 3714
988
ID: 4772
Vladimir I of Kiev converts to Orthodoxy - marries Byzantine princess, Russia becomes Orthodox
ID: 4772
1000
ID: 3716
Iceland converts to Christianity - Althing votes to adopt Christianity, avoiding civil war
ID: 3716
1079
ID: 5053
Berengar's final recantation - definitively accepts Real Presence at Roman synod, retires to hermitage
ID: 5053
1088
ID: 5054
Death of Berengar of Tours - dies in communion with Church after genuine conversion
ID: 5054
1212
ID: 3592
St. Dominic spreads Rosary devotion (1212-1214) - Documented: 100,000 heretics return to Catholic faith through Rosary crusade
ID: 3592
1263
ID: 123
St. Raymond of Penyafort at age 88 walks on his cloak across sea to Barcelona
ID: 123
1273
ID: 119
St. Margaret of Cortona has vision of her murdered lover - converts from life of sin, receives revelations
ID: 119
1474
ID: 3569
St. Catherine of Genoa: Sudden conversion during confession - Vision of Christ's blood flowing: 'My daughter, see this blood - it is for love of you!' - 'No more world! No more sins!'
ID: 3569
1521
ID: 3529
May 20, 1521
St. Ignatius of Loyola wounded at Pamplona - Cannonball shatters leg - begins conversion reading lives of saints - 'What if I should do what St. Francis did, what St. Dominic did?'
ID: 3529
1602
ID: 4950
St. Francis de Sales becomes Bishop of Geneva - converts 70,000 Calvinists through gentleness
ID: 4950
1613
ID: 3457
Elector John Sigismund of Brandenburg converts to Calvinism - While subjects remain Lutheran - Sets stage for Pietism to provide unifying ideology
ID: 3457
1691
ID: 3438
August Hermann Francke's Conversion Experience - Dramatic emotional crisis in Lüneburg - 'I fell upon my knees and cried to God for mercy...Then suddenly, as if a hand were laid upon me, all my doubt vanished' - Establishes model for required conversion experience
ID: 3438
1728
ID: 491
Rousseau's wandering years begin - converts to Catholicism in Turin, becomes lover of Madame de Warens
ID: 491
1803
ID: 682
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton converts to Catholicism - will found American Catholic education system
ID: 682
1889
ID: 1091
Blessed Charles de Foucauld begins conversion through Abbe Huvelin - could do nothing else but live for God
ID: 1091
1949
ID: 1616
James Bryant Conant acknowledges conversion to Prussian-style schooling was done as 'a coup de main'
ID: 1616
1950
ID: 1654
December 24, 1950
Christmas Eve 1950: Bella Dodd attends Midnight Mass at St. Francis of Assisi Church
ID: 1654