Early evidence of their use in Britain includes: an equal hour horary quadrant from 1396, in England, a 1445 inscription on the tower of Heathfield Church, Sussex ; a 1448 inscription on a wooden lych-gate of Bray Church, Berkshire ; and a 1487 inscription on the belfry door at Piddletrenthide church, Dorset ; and in Scotland a 1470 inscription on the tomb of the first Earl of Huntly in Elgin Cathedral.

Acts tells the story of the Apostolic Age of the Early Christian church, with particular emphasis on the ministry of the Twelve Apostles and of Paul of Tarsus.

Those in favor of apostolic authorship point to the testimony of the early church fathers ( see " Early Theories " above ) and similarities between the Gospel of John and Revelation.

Saint Columba ( 7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD )— also known as Colum Cille, or Chille ( Old Irish, meaning " dove of the church "), Colm Cille ( Irish ), Calum Cille ( Scottish Gaelic ), Colum Keeilley ( Manx Gaelic ) and Kolban or Kolbjørn ( Old Norse )— was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period.

Initially the sole preserver of literate scholarship in Western Europe, the church established Cathedral schools in the Early Middle Ages as centers of advanced education.

Early settlements in the area of present-day Luxembourg City before the 10th century with the church Saint-Saveur, today St. Micheal, built in 987

Early in 313, Constantine and fellow Emperor Licinius reached an agreement at Milan that they would grant freedom of religion to the Christians and other religions and restore church property.

Proponents of preterism sometimes argue that this position was the original eschatological understanding of the Early Christian church, a claim contested by historicists and futurists.

Bramante's work in the city, which included Santa Maria presso San Satiro ( a reconstruction of a small 9th-century church ), the beautiful luminous tribune of Santa Maria delle Grazie and three cloisters for Sant ' Ambrogio, drew also on his studies of the Early Christian architecture of Milan such as the Basilica of San Lorenzo.

Early in September, Cromwell also completed a new set of viceregential injunctions declaring open war on " pilgrimages, feigned relics, or images, or any such superstitions ", and commanding that " one book of the whole Bible of the largest volume in English " be set up in every church.

Early church lists place him as the second or third bishop of Rome after Saint Peter.

Early in the morning of Christmas Eve, the head of the family would go to a forest in order to cut badnjak, a young oak, which is then brought into the church to be blessed by the priest.

Early in 1866, a church committee was formed to investigate sexual misconduct reports about Alger.

Early church fathers defended the resurrection of the dead against the pagan belief that the immortal soul went to the underworld immediately after death.

The church is constructed in the Early English style with a nave of 5 bays leading to a chancel arch and reduced chancel area beyond.

Early English legends have created the belief that the church was built on the site of a monastery founded by Botolph in 654, but with the main source of this being the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, this is heavily disputed.

Early settler Lewis W. Reinhardt established a church in 1834 in the settlement known as Reinhardt Chapel and befriended many of the native Cherokee population.

Early in Æthelred's reign, Theodore, the Archbishop of Canterbury, began a substantial reorganization of the church in Mercia.

The first mention of Whitkirk itself is in 1154-66 in the Early Yorkshire Charters as ‘ Witechirche ’, meaning ‘ white church ’.

A 13th century Early English doorway, from a former building, was retained in the construction of the church.

During Early modern age sculpted cribs were set in every Catholic church and aristocratic palace, representing an entire traditional Italian hilltop village with its artisans and vendors.

A Celtic stone carved with cup and rings / channels, known as the Runic Cross ( although there are neither runes on it, nor any evidence that it was a cross shaft ) was found on the slopes of the Leithen valley suggesting that a church existed during the Early Middle Ages.

Early in the 13th century was the parish church, Hemsedal stave church, which was probably built around 1207-1224.

Early modern writers, such as Polydore Vergil and Matthew Parker, the Elizabethan Archbishop of Canterbury, also utilised the Historia, and his works were used by both Protestant and Catholic sides in the Wars of Religion.

Category: Early medieval Latin writers

Early Christian writers occasionally cited Ezra as author of the apocalyptic books attributed to him.

Early medieval writers often had fuzzy and imprecise impressions of both Ptolemy and Aristotle and relied more on Pliny, but they felt ( with one exception ), little urge to assume flatness.

Early writers such as Ammianus ( followed by Thompson ) stated that they used primitive, bone-tipped arrowheads.

Category: Early medieval Latin writers

Category: Early medieval Latin writers

Early Christian writers soon adopted the codex form, and in the Græco-Roman world, it became common to cut sheets from papyrus rolls to form codices.

Category: Early modern Christian devotional writers

Universalist writers such as George T. Knight have claimed that Universalism was a widely held view among theologians in Early Christianity However, some examples, such as Origen and Clement of Alexandria, used by Knight and other Universalist writers are contested by writers such as Crouzel, Root, Norris, and Itter.

The Germanic phoneme was therefore written as ‹ vv › or ‹ uu › (‹ u › and ‹ v › becoming distinct only by the Early Modern period ) by the 7th or 8th century by the earliest writers of Old English and Old High German.

Early fantasy writers like Lord Dunsany, E. R. Eddison and James Branch Cabell were familiar with Morris ' romances.

Renaissance and Early Modern writers characterized the Vandals as barbarians, " sacking and looting " Rome.

Early writers do not connect Joseph to this activity, however.

Category: Early medieval Latin writers

Early American cigarette cards depicted actors, writers, sports figures, military figures, and businessmen like Jay Gould.

Early writers have sometimes focused on the spilling seed, and the sexual act being used for non-procreational purposes.

Early writers assumed the female sang when it is in fact the male.

Early Christian sources explicitly described this event as a sacrificial offering, with Jesus in the role of both priest and victim, although starting with the Enlightenment, some writers, such as John Locke, have disputed the model of Jesus ' death as a propitiatory sacrifice.

The Early Imperial Roman writers consistently rated Myron among the greatest of Greek sculptors, a sign that his contemporaneous reputation had remained high.

Category: Early medieval Latin writers

Early episodes saw Hills and Green writing for the comedians as if Morecambe and Wise were alter egos of the writers.