Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Christianization" in English language version.
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In the Americas, the Catholic priest Bartolome de las Casas avidly encouraged enquiries into the Spanish conquest's many cruelties. Las Casas chronicled Spanish brutality against the Native peoples in excruciating detail.
The letter of Pope Innocent I. to Decentius, bishop of Eugubium in Umbria, in 416 A.D. [...] begins by a strong assertion of the obligation of all to observe the traditions handed down to the Roman Church by Peter, and not to introduce usages derived from any other source, especially as it was clear that the churches of Italy, Gaul, Spain, Africa, Sicily, and the adjacent islands owed the foundations of their churches to those whom the Apostle Peter or his successors had appointed bishops (sacerdotes). He urges Decentius to instruct, warn, or pass judgement on those who introduce novelties or think that any other custom ought to be followed than that of the Church of Rome.
[...] Greek missionaries probably played a part in the evangelization of North Africa, perhaps also Marseilles and the Rhône valley, and even Northern Italy, not to mention Rome itself.
Egyptian Christians (Copts) had missionaries in northern Europe — Saint Moritz the Theban [...] was drafted into the Roman army and ended up preaching the Gospel in the Swiss Alps where a small town and monastery are named after him — and there is some indication, but no conclusive evidence, of a Coptic missionary movement even as far afield as Ireland [...].
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