The word "church" in common language has many meanings depending on the context. This is the story ... Origin of the English ...

Anglo-Saxons believed in lucky charms ... Pagan shrines were turned into churches, magic water became holy water, and various pagan gods were gradually turned in Christian saints.

It’s the story, too, of the rising influence of the Christian church. After the conversion ... having dominated the other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms for the last decades of the 8th century and having ...