Christianization of saints and feasts
The term Christianized calendar refers to feast days which are Christianized reformulations of feasts from pre-Christian times. == Christianization of saints == Historian Peter Brown, in his The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, argued that one cannot equate the ancient cults of pagan gods with the later cults of the saints.
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