Oswiu's son Ealhfrith married Penda's daughter Cyneburh, while his daughter Ealhflæd married Penda's son Peada.

The northern portion was kept under direct Northumbrian control ; the southern kingdom was given to Penda's son Peada, who had married Oswiu's daughter Ealhflæd ca 653.

Penda's son Peada was installed as king of southern Mercia, while Oswiu took the north of the kingdom.

Oswiu installed Peada, a son of Penda, as king of southern Mercia, and ruled the northern half himself ; after Peada was murdered in 656 Oswiu took direct control of all of Mercia.

Penda had continued in his traditional paganism despite the widespread conversions of Anglo-Saxon monarchs to Christianity, and a number of Christian kings had suffered death in defeat against him ; after Penda's death, Mercia was converted, and all the kings who ruled thereafter ( including Penda's sons Peada, Wulfhere and Æthelred ) were Christian.

After Penda's death, Mercia was converted, and all the kings who ruled thereafter were Christian, including Penda's sons Peada, who had already been baptized with his father's permission, as the condition set by king Oswiu of Northumbria for the marriage of his daughter Alchflaed to Peada, to the husband's misfortune, according to Bede, who informs us that Peada was " very wickedly killed " through his wife's treachery " during the very time of celebrating Easter " in 656.

It was their sub-king, Peada, who had secured the services of Chad's brother Cedd in 653, and they were frequently considered separately from the Mercians proper, a people who lived further to the west and north.

Probably as a newly ordained priest, he was sent in 653 by Oswiu on a difficult mission to the Middle Angles, at the request of their sub-king Peada, part of a developing pattern of Northumbrian intervention in Mercian affairs.

* Peada succeeds his father Penda as king of Mercia.

Penda was succeeded first by his son Peada ( who converted to Christianity at Repton in 653 ), and who was set up by Oswiu as an under king, but in the spring of 656 he was murdered and Oswiu assumed direct control of the whole of Mercia.

Mercian rulers remained resolutely pagan until the reign of Peada in 656, although this did not prevent them joining coalitions with Christian Welsh rulers to resist Northumbria.

Christianity finally gained a foothold in Mercia when Oswiu supported Peada as sub-king of the Middle Angles, requiring him to marry Oswiu's daughter, Alchflaed, and to accept her religion.

If they did divide the kingdom, it is likely that Eowa ruled northern Mercia, as Penda's son Peada was established later as the king of southern Mercia by the Northumbrian Oswiu, who defeated the Mercians and killed Penda in 656.

He established himself as King of Mercia, setting up his son-in-law, Penda's son Peada as a subject king.

Peada was baptised at Ad Murum — in the region of Hadrian's Wall — by Aidan's successor Finan.

The proximate cause was the death of Peada, supposedly poisoned by his wife, Oswiu's daughter Eahlflæd.

He had another brother, Peada, and two sisters, Cyneburh and Cyneswith ; it is also possible that Merewalh, king of the Magonsæte, was Æthelred ’ s brother.

However, there were diplomatic marriages between the two kingdoms: Æthelred's sister Cyneburh married Alhfrith, a son of Oswiu of Northumbria, and both Æthelred and his brother Peada married daughters of Oswiu.

Penda's son Peada became king under Oswiu's overlordship but was murdered a year later.

He had two brothers, Peada and Æthelred, and two sisters, Cyneburh and Cyneswith ; it is also possible that Merewalh, king of the Magonsæte, was Wulfhere's brother.

Peada did not remain king long.

Oswiu went further than this, however, and installed his own governors in Mercia after the deaths of Penda and Peada.

While Wulfhere's father had refused to convert to Christianity, and Peada had apparently converted in order to marry Oswiu's daughter, the date and the circumstances of Wulfhere's conversion are unknown.

Bede records that two years before Penda's death, his son Peada converted to Christianity, influenced partly by Oswiu's son Ealhfrith, who had married Peada's sister Cyneburh.

Peada brought a Christian mission into Mercia, and it is possible that this was when Wulfhere became a Christian.

The monastery had initially been endowed by Peada ; for the dedication of Wulfhere's gift both Archbishop Deusdedit ( died 664 ), and Bishop Jaruman ( held office from 663 ), were present.

Peada ( died 656 ), a son of Penda, was briefly King of southern Mercia after his father's death in November 655 until his own death in the spring of the next year.

Cyneburh's marriage to Alhfrith took place in the early 650s, and Peada's marriage, to Ealhflæd, followed shortly afterwards ; Æthelred's marriage, to Osthryth, is of unknown date but must have occurred before 679, since Bede mentions it in describing the Battle of the Trent, which took place that year.

Bede records that Peada's death, forty years earlier, stemmed from " the treachery, it is said, of his own wife "; Peada's wife was Ealhflæd, Osthryth's sister.

A Christian missionary in 1935 took a picture of a Muslim meat restaurant in Hankow which had Arabic and Chinese lettering indicating that it was Halal ( fit for Muslim consumption ), and it had two Kuomintang party symbols on it.

With the influx of missionary priests trained in the English Colleges in Douai and Rome from the 1570s onwards relations between the authorities and the Catholic community took a further turn for the worse.

In July 2004, Bishop Belo took up missionary work in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique.

The uprising took place in response to foreign " spheres of influence " in China, with grievances ranging from opium traders, political invasion, economic manipulation, to missionary evangelism.

Once the missionary activities of Otto of Bamberg took root Bolesław III began to implement an ecclesiastical organization of Pomerania.

I took this missionary stuff very seriously but thought of myself in the position that a warrior might find himself if he didn't have the support of his own regiment ; from 1956 to 1970 I had felt pretty much alone.

In the mid-17th century, John Eliot, a Puritan missionary to the American Indians, established " praying towns " where Native Americans took up Christianity and were expected to renounce their religious ceremonies, traditional dress, and customs.

Albanian churchmen took part in missionary efforts in the Caucasus and Pontic regions.

He took the Christian name of Hastings after being baptised into the Church of Scotland, naming himself after John Hastings, a Scottish missionary working near his village whom he admired.

In 1913, Anagarika Dharmapala took a sapling of the Sri Maha Bodhi to Hawai ' i, where he presented it to his benefactor, Mary Foster – who had funded much Buddhist missionary work.

He was a regular contributor to the funds of the Baptist Missionary Union, and took upon himself the entire support of a foreign missionary.

The French missionary Raymond Breton, who arrived in the Lesser Antilles in 1635, and lived on Guadeloupe and Dominica until 1653, took ethnographic and linguistic notes of the native peoples of these islands, including St Vincent which he visited only briefly.

The most important of these are: the Capuchins, founded in 1525 by Matteo Bassi and established in 1619 by Paul V as a separate order ; the Discalced Franciscans, founded as a specially strict Observantist congregation at Belalcázar in Spain by Juan de Puebla toward the end of the 15th century, compelled by Leo X to unite with the regular Observantists, but soon afterward reestablished as an independent branch by Juan de Guadelupe ( d. 1580 ), and subsequently obtaining some importance in Spain and Portugal ; the Alcantarines, a very strict congregation founded in 1540 by Peter of Alcántara, and distinguished by remarkable achievements in the mission field ; the Italian Riformati, founded about 1525 near Rieti by two Spanish Observantists, and becoming comparatively widespread from the beginning of the 17th century through the favour of Pope Clement VIII and Pope Urban VIII ; the French Recollects, originating in Cluys in 1570 and, more successfully at Rabastens in 1583, formed into a distinct congregation by Clement VIII in 1602, and important in later missionary history, especially in Canada ; the German-Belgian Recollects, formed in the 17th century, as the Observant provinces in Germany and Belgium accepted stricter statutes and took the name Recollects during and after the Thirty Years ' War.

He took what he believed to be a divine call and crossed the Atlantic Ocean to preach as a missionary to the Catholics of Ireland, and thereafter was never connected officially with the ministry of the Methodist Church, though he remained essentially a Methodist in doctrine.

Matteo Ricci, the Jesuit missionary who lived in China for twenty-seven years from 1583, expressed horror at the open and tolerant attitude that the Chinese took to homosexuality and naturally enough saw this as proof of the degeneracy of Chinese society.

In 1820 missionary Thomas Kendall took Hongi Hika to Britain.

During the Age of Discovery, 1450 – 1700, European Catholic rulers took a great interest in the missionary evangelization of indigenous peoples encountered in newly discovered lands.

Many later Plymouth Brethren missionaries took the same stance, and included notable missionary pioneers such as:

This event took place roughly a hundred years after the missionary efforts of Ashoka, and it would suggest that Dharmaraksita was a young man under Ashoka, became a respected elder settled in the Ashokan capital of Pataliputra, and then trained a young Nagasena in the Tripitaka and towards enlightenment, before Nagasena himself met Menander at a venerable age.

He took a position in the American Memorial School, a missionary school, in Tabriz.

Islam also took root due to the zealous missionary work of Samanid rulers as a significant number of Turkic peoples accepted Islam.

Islam also took root due to the zealous missionary work of Samanid rulers, notably in areas surrounding Taraz where a significant number of Kazakhs accepted Islam.

This was a time of great revival and several missionary activities took place at St. Luke's Church, Borella.

The majority Ismā ‘ īlī missionary movement settled in Salamiyyah ( in present-day Syria ) and had great success in Khuzestan ( southwestern Persia ), where the Ismā ‘ īlī leader al-Husayn al-Ahwāzī converted the Kūfan man Ḥamdān in 874 CE, who took the name Qarmaṭ after his new faith.