When the Governor saw that he was confessing his Christianity publicly, not caring what might happen to him, he ordered him not to show up in the city.

When Sun Yat-sen was asked by one of the leading revolutionary generals to what he ascribed the success, he said, " To Christianity more than to any other single cause.

When Theodosius ascended to the imperial throne in 380, he began on a campaign to bring the Eastern Church back to Nicene Christianity.

When Keller was young, Anne Sullivan introduced her to Phillips Brooks, who introduced her to Christianity, Keller famously saying: " I always knew He was there, but I didn't know His name!

When Constantine converted to Christianity the majority of his subjects were still pagans and the Roman Imperial cult of the divinity of the emperor, expressed through the traditional burning of candles and the offering of incense to the emperor ’ s image, was tolerated for a period because it would have been politically dangerous to attempt to suppress it.

When the parents took James to church to be baptized, the father Samuel refused to declare his belief in Christianity, and the minister refused to baptize the child.

When the Pictish elite converted to Christianity is uncertain, but traditions place Saint Palladius in Pictland after he left Ireland, and link Abernethy with Saint Brigid of Kildare.

When the god did not strike him down, the people were amazed and converted to Christianity.

When Unitarianism developed in the 17th century during the Protestant era of the evolution of Christianity, the strongholds in Transylvania, Poland, and eventually Britain and the northeastern parts of the United States were firmly in the congregational tradition.

When used of historical periods since the 16th century, ' Western Christianity ' refers collectively to Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, especially in referral to aspects shared ( for example ritually, doctrinally, historically and politically ) rather than aspects differing between them.

When Vladimir promised to baptize himself and to convert his people to Christianity, Basil finally agreed.

“ When Christianity becomes the government, the question is whose Christianity ?” Marcaurelle asked.

When Christianity was legalized under Constantine the Great and Licinius, formal church buildings were built in great numbers, normally with free-standing altars in the middle of the sanctuary, which in all the earliest churches built in Rome was at the west end of the church.

When Christianity became widespread in Europe after the 3rd century AD, the religious or mystical respect for the mistletoe plant was integrated to an extent into the new religion.

When Shrewsbury is visited by an Inquisition-style orthodoxy ( The Heretic ’ s Apprentice ) or a harshly punitive version of Christianity ( The Raven in the Foregate ), the stories end with a reaffirmation of the positive, tolerant faith espoused by Cadfael.

When Fijians adopted Christianity, widow-strangling was abandoned.

When Christianity took religious precedence, this may have brought about the decline of importance ( and thus, size ) of the leprechauns.

When Ansgar the Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen, set out on the " Mission to bring Christianity to the North ", he made a request in 860, to the King of Denmark, that the first Scandinavian church be built in Ribe.

When Einsiedeln Abbey was founded, it was granted many farms, villages and isolated churches helping to spread Christianity into the high valleys.

According to the Heimskringla, "( When ) King Olaf Tryggvason came to Ringerike to spread Christianity, Sigurd Syr and his wife allowed themselves to be baptized ".

When the Western Roman Empire ended with the abdication of Emperor Romulus Augustus in 476, Christianity survived.

When Emund the Old ascended to the throne, around 1050, he had converted to Christianity.

When Christianity arrived, the assembly and market were moved to a Christian feast at the beginning of February:

When the news spread that Agrippina had died, the Roman army, senate and various people sent him letters of congratulations that he had been saved from his mother's plots.

When ice forms on the beds, trucks can be driven onto the ice to spread a thin layer of sand that helps to control pests and rejuvenate the vines.

When water got scarce, it was rationed and rain water was collected with spread sails.

When Krav Maga started to spread beyond the borders of Israel, there arose a need to found an international organization.

When Churchill was ousted as the queen's favorite, she purportedly spread allegations of the queen having affairs with her bedchamberwomen.

When such mutations result in a higher fitness, natural selection will favor these phenotypes and the novel trait will spread in the population.

When the talent agency Music Corporation of America ( better known as MCA ), then wielding major influence on Paramount policy, offered $ 50 million for 750 features released prior to December 1, 1949 ( with payment to be spread over many years ), a cash-strapped Paramount thought it had made the best possible deal.

When, in the 18th century, a library of ancient papyri was found in Herculaneum, ripples of expectation spread among the learned men of the time.

When the sample to be tested is made into a mull ( a very thick paste ), liquid paraffin is added so it can be spread on the transparent ( to infrared ) mounting plates to be tested.

When a rumour spread that Richard had ordered all Jews to be killed, the people of London began a massacre.

When news began to spread of Henry I's death, many of the potential claimants to the throne were not well placed to respond.

When the continents joined 3 million years ago, the Great American Interchange resulted in many species being spread across the Americas, such as the cougar, porcupine, and hummingbirds.

When a small sub-molecular imperfection was introduced into Captain America's shield, each impact over the years spread to neighboring molecules.

When the bride leaves her home with the groom to his house, a " Good Luck Woman " will hold a red umbrella over her head, meaning " raise the bark, spread the leaves.

When word spread about the tour, performers began contacting LaFave, whose only prerequisite was to have an inspirational connection to Guthrie.

When Etruscan settlements turned up south of the border, it was presumed that the Etruscans spread there after the foundation of Rome, but the settlements are now known to have preceded Rome.

When combined with Near Vertical Incidence Skywave ( NVIS ) techniques and sufficient channels spread across the spectrum, an ALE node can provide greater than 95 % success linking on the first call, on a near-par with SATCOM systems.

When a message is transmitted through such a channel, the spread pulse of each individual symbol will interfere with following symbols.

When all clasts are more or less of the same size, the rock is called ' well-sorted ', when there is a large spread in grain size, the rock is called ' poorly sorted '.

When the cheese has fermented enough, it is often cut into thin strips and spread on moistened Sardinian flatbread ( pane carasau ), to be served with a strong red wine.

When the water pressure within the xylem reaches extreme levels due to low water input from the roots ( if, for example, the soil is dry ), then the gases come out of solution and form a bubble – an embolism forms, which will spread quickly to other adjacent cells, unless bordered pits are present ( these have a plug-like structure called a torus, that seals off the opening between adjacent cells and stops the embolism from spreading ).

When revolutionary forces forced their way into Norfolk, Virginia, and used waterfront buildings as cover for shots at British vessels out in the river, the response of destruction of those buildings was ingeniously used to the advantage of the rebels, who encouraged the spread of fire throughout the largely Loyalist town, and spread propaganda blaming it on the British.

When printing, the bulging characters would have some ink spread on them and be covered by paper.

When the clouds deepen and spread, especially when they are of the cirrus radiatus variety or cirrus fibratus species, this usually indicates an approaching weather front.