Missionaries had to travel to distant lands to spread Buddhist teachings.
Catholic missionaries have traveled the globe, since the first century they have gone into every known land.
Catholic missionaries have traveled the globe, since the first century they have gone into every known land.
They were a group formed to help protect missionaries on their journeys to spread religion.
There was no impact of missionaries because there was no missionaries. Europe was all Catholic and travel outside of Europe didn't happen until the late 1400's so no missionaries were needed.
To teach people about Christianity.
To spread God's word to the natives.
Wales and parts of northern England were originally converted to Christianity by missionaries from Ireland (about 550 onwards). These areas were in some respects out of step with Western Catholicism and their variety of Christianity is sometimes referred to as 'Celtic'. The south and east of England were converted by missionaries from mainland Europe. In 664 the 'Celtic' christians accepted alignment with Rome.
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they moved to Oregon to convert natives to their religion.
To teach people about Christianity.
There was no significance to missionaries since there were no missionaries. All of Europe was Catholic and people didn't travel outside Europe until the late 1400's so a missionary wasn't needed to convert people.