She is a convert from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism.

In order to receive permission from Bardot's parents to marry her, Vadim, originally a Russian Orthodox Christian, was urged to convert to Catholicism, although it is not clear if he ever did so.

With the Papal Bull of 1493, Pope Alexander VI commanded Spain to conquer, colonize and convert the Pagans of the New World to Catholicism.

The trip ended as an embarrassing failure however as the Spanish demanded that Charles must convert to Roman Catholicism and remain in Spain for a year after the wedding as hostage to ensure England's compliance with all the terms of the treaty.

Although he had spiritual interests before that time, he said, " I didn't convert to Catholicism, because I wasn't anything to convert from.

Distributism is known to have had an influence on the economist E. F. Schumacher, a convert to Catholicism.

In 1581, to convert English subjects to Catholicism with " the intent " to withdraw them from their allegiance to Elizabeth was made a treasonable offence, carrying the death penalty.

Alexander obtained Mongol protection and assistance in fighting invaders from the west who, hoping to profit from the Russian collapse since the Mongol invasions, tried to grab territory and convert the Russians to Roman Catholicism.

On August 2, 1600, after refusing to convert to Catholicism, Kepler and his family were banished from Graz.

In Italy, the Lombards were intensively Christianised and the pressure to convert to Catholicism was great.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, barbarian tribes were converted to Arian Christianity or Catholicism ; Clovis I, king of the Franks, was the first important barbarian ruler to convert to Catholicism rather than Arianism, allying himself with the papacy.

" After Descartes died in Sweden, Queen Christina abdicated her throne to convert to Roman Catholicism ( Swedish law required a Protestant ruler ).

Zaehner himself was a convert to Catholicism.

They were ordered to convert to Roman Catholicism or leave Poland.

From 1941 – 45, the Croatian Ustaše regime murdered around 500, 000 people, 250, 000 were expelled, and another 200, 000 were forced to convert to Catholicism ; the victims were predominantly Serbs but included 37, 000 Jews.

* March 31 – Ferdinand and Isabella sign the Alhambra decree, expelling all Jews from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism.

* Clovis, first Frankish king to unite the Franks ; first barbarian king to convert to Catholicism

* December 12 – The Virgin Mary, in the guise of Our Lady of Guadalupe, allegedly appears to Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, an Aztec convert to Catholicism.

In return Charles will relax the laws against Catholics, gradually re-Catholicize England, support French policy against the Dutch and convert to Catholicism himself.

There are several Carmelite figures who have received significant attention in the 20th century, including Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, one of only three female Doctors of the Church, so named because of her famous teaching on the " way of confidence and love " set forth in her best-selling memoir, " Story of a Soul "; Titus Brandsma, a Dutch scholar and writer who was killed in Dachau Concentration Camp because of his stance against Nazism ; and Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross ( née Edith Stein ), a Jewish convert to Catholicism who was also imprisoned and died at Auschwitz.

His unsuccessful proposals to teenagers continued when he was past his 70th birthday ; one prospect came near to marrying him, but broke off the engagement when she refused to convert to Catholicism.

Hilderic allowed a new Catholic bishop to take office in the Vandal capital of Carthage, and many Vandals began to convert to Catholicism, to the alarm of the Vandal nobility.

Louis agreed to aid Charles in the Third Anglo-Dutch War and pay Charles a pension, and Charles secretly promised to convert to Roman Catholicism at an unspecified future date.

Paul the Apostle, an early Christian convert and missionary, wrote, " If Christ was not raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your trust in God is useless.

Freud wrote that changing homosexuality was difficult and possible only under unusually favourable conditions, observing that “ in general to undertake to convert a fully developed homosexual into a heterosexual does not offer much more prospect of success than the reverse .” Success meant making heterosexual feeling possible, not eliminating homosexual feelings.

Protestant authors who wrote on the topic in the 16th century include the English historian John Foxe who published the Book of Martyrs in 1554 and the Spanish convert Reginaldo González de Montes, author of Exposición de algunas mañas de la Santa Inquisición Española ( Exposition of some methods of the Holy Spanish Inquisition ) ( 1567 ).

Apparently, Lucretius wrote On the Nature of Things in an attempt to convert Gaius Memmius to atomism, but was unsuccessful.

A classically educated Roman convert, Cassiodorus wrote extensively on scribal practices.

" The first important visual representation of the First Vision was painted by the Danish convert C. C. A. Christensen sometime between 1869 and 1878, and George Manwaring, inspired by the artist, wrote a hymn about the First Vision ( later renamed " Oh, How Lovely Was the Morning ") first published in 1884.

Saint Hegesippus ( Ἅγιος Ἡγήσιππος ) ( c. 110 — c. April 7, 180 AD ), was a Christian chronicler of the early Church who may have been a Jewish convert and certainly wrote against heresies of the Gnostics and of Marcion.

The principle of ecclesiastical reservation was tested in the Cologne War ( 1583-1588 ), which grew out of the scenario envisioned by Ferdinand when he wrote the proviso: the reigning Prince-Bishop converted to Protestantism ; although he did not insist that the population convert, he placed Calvinism on a parity with Catholicism throughout the Electorate of Cologne.

Like Agathias, he wrote epigrams, one of which, on a Persian magus, who became a convert to Christianity and died the death of a martyr, is preserved in the Greek Anthology ( i. 101 ).

He wrote about this decision to his family, who had raised him in the Methodist faith, which inspired the youngest of his brothers, Sylvester Horton Rosecrans, to convert as well.

" I have come back ," he wrote to Basil Williams, " finally and immutably a convert to Home Rule ... though we both grew up steeped in the most irreconcilable sort of Unionism.

McBride became an ardent convert to John C. Symmes ' Hollow Earth theory, and wrote a book in support of it in 1826.

This " first basilica " is known to have existed in 392, when St. Jerome wrote of the church dedicated to St. Clement, i. e. Pope Clement I, a 1st century AD Christian convert and considered by patrologists and ecclesiastical historians to be identical with Titus Flavius Clemens.

In 1955 he became a convert to Roman Catholicism and wrote many historical works in a Catholic apologist tone.

Sigebert of Gembloux wrote that before “ a war in behalf of the Lord ” could be fought it was essential that the Jews convert ; those who resisted were “ deprived of their goods, massacred, and expelled from the cities .”

When AmeriFlora was not as successful as hoped, the Columbus Dispatch wrote a $ 2. 6 million check to convert the property into a public park, as had been promised.

Samau ’ al Ibn Yahya al-Maghribi, a Jewish convert to Islam in the twelfth century, wrote that the Persians prohibited the Jews from holding prayer services.

" Darwin became a complete convert, " well convinced that the only thing for Chronic cases is the water-cure ", and wrote, " I really think I shall make a point of coming here for a fortnight occasionally, as the country is very pleasant for walking.

In 1291 Pope Nicholas IV wrote two letters inviting John II to convert to Catholicism, join in a new crusade for the recovery of the Holy Land and be Christianity's envoy to the Mongols.

As a Muslim convert he performed the pilgrimage to Mecca in 1990 and wrote extensively about it.

In August 1227 Pope Gregory IX wrote a letter to the bishop of Esztergom instructing him to convert to Christianity " in Cumania et Bordinia terra illis vicina ".

The Catholic convert and minister Richard John Neuhaus wrote that the book " tells the story straight, thus countering the Islamophile histories that have dominated Western thought for so long ".

The Shaker convert Frederick W. Evans in 1888 wrote an essay, based more on his enthusiasm than mainstream Shakerism, called a " Shaker reconstruction of the American Government.

At Erwig's request, in 686, he wrote De Comprobatione Aetatis Sextae Contra Judaeos, a work dealing with messianic prophesies of the Bible in a way intended to convert the Jews.