1 However, its basic purpose was to Christianize China.

2 Believing he had been called by God to Christianize Ireland, he joined the Catholic Church and studied for 15 years before being consecrated as the church's second missionary to Ireland.

3 Can we convince God to somehow "Christianize" these customs and the whole pretense and lie of Christmas, so we can enjoy ourselves?

4 In principle, there was nothing that could not be absorbed into this radically Christianized world.

5 For instance, it was once popular to attempt to christianize the celebration by locating its origin somewhere in Biblical traditions.

6 In 1814, Carl Rothschild lamented the tendency of rich German Jews to Christianize themselves: 'I am a Jew in the depths in my heart.