Christianity in Varshan: Difference between revisions

The earliest Christians to arrive on Varshani soil, not including any possible pre-Asterian shipwreck survivors, were traders who began to occasionally appear in [[Crona]] in the 1390s, just after [[Aster's expedition]] revealed the continent to the [[Occident]]. Occidental traders are known to have been present throughout the [[North Songun civilization]] in the early 15th century, including territory now part of [[Varshan]] and potentially even in contemporary Varshan itself. The arrival of Occidental traders and other Occidental interests necessarily meant the arrival of the first Occidental [[Culture_of_Varshan#Slavery|slaves in Varshan]], and the first permanent group of Christians within Varshan were almost certainly enslaved people. Renaissance era stories say that a dishonest trader named Mellifus and his party were imprisoned in modern [[Kelekona]] and sold into slavery in Varshan as a group in around [[1405]], making them the earliest documented Christian group in the country; many historians and scholars believe this story is legendary or a morality tale from a lost context. Christian missionaries also occasionally made the long and dangerous trip to Varshan beginning around 1405, with most being enslaved or killed. Evidence suggests some may have been successful, as a traveler to Varshan in [[1497]] reports encountering a village of Christian believers about a hundred and fifty miles southeast of Anzo; the report says that the community was generations removed from the missionary and any priest, and that the villagers prayed as often to the missionary, the so-called "Saint Lars", as much as the {{wp|Trinity}}.