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So firm was the hold which the ethnic gods of Ireland had taken upon the imagination and spiritual sensibilities of our ancestors that even the monks and christianized bards never thought of denying them.

From The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by Wentz, W. Y. Evans

Bess ain't Bess by rights; she was christianized Matilda Jane, and we called her Bess for short.

From The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike by Jarvis, W. H. P. (William Henry Pope)

Can the gang spirit itself be christianized and used to restrain and stimulate the young for good?

From The Social Principles of Jesus by Rauschenbusch, Walter

Two years later these sacred bones were transferred with the greatest respect to St. Ignace de Michilimackinac by the savage tribe of the Kiskakons, whom Father Marquette had christianized.

From The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval by Leblond de Brumath, Adrien

With Roldan's help he had beaten off an attempt on the island by the adventurer Ojeda, his old lieutenant; the Indians were being collected into villages and christianized.

From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by Dickey, J. M. (John Marcus)