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Herend products are made from hard-paste porcelain using a mixture of kaolin, feldspar and quartz. Herend porcelain has won 24 grand and gold prizes in world exhibitions between 1851 and 1937. [ citation needed ] One of the best known Herend patterns was presented at the London World Exhibition in 1851, the Chinese-style butterflies and flowery ...
Herend (German: Herrendorf) is a small town in Hungary (), near the city of Veszprém.. The history of the town goes back into Roman times, indicated by the findings near the precincts of the town, while in the Middle Ages a few villages occupied the area where the current town stands.
The history of Christianity begins with the ministry of Jesus, a Jewish teacher and healer who was crucified and died c. AD 30–33 in Jerusalem in the Roman province of Judea. Afterwards, his followers, a set of apocalyptic Jews , proclaimed him risen from the dead .
The liturgical vestments of the Christian churches grew out of normal civil clothing, but the dress of church leaders began to be differentiated as early as the 4th century. By the end of the 13th century the forms used in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches had become established, while the Reformation led to changes in Protestant ...
301 – Armenia is the first kingdom in history to adopt Christianity as state religion 303–312 Diocletian's Massacre of Christians, includes burning of scriptures ( EH 8.2 ) 303 Saint George , patron saint of Georgia, England and other states
Part of the 6th-century Madaba Map asserting two possible baptism locations The crucifixion of Jesus as depicted by Mannerist painter Bronzino (c. 1545). There is no scholarly consensus concerning most elements of Jesus's life as described in the Christian and non-Christian sources, and reconstructions of the "historical Jesus" are broadly debated for their reliability, [note 7] [note 6] but ...
Emperors who modeled Christianity's moral appeal with aristocratic honor, combined with laws that made Christianity attractive to the aristocratic class, led to the conversion of the aristocracy beginning in the 360s under Gratian. [249] [250] Sacrifice in honour of the goddess Diana, first century wall-painting. House of the Vettii in Pompeii
Christendom: a Short History of Christianity and Its Impact on Western Civilization, in series, Harper Colophon Books. New York: Harper & Row. 2 vol., ill. Molland, Einar (1959) Christendom: the Christian churches, their doctrines, constitutional forms and ways of worship.