Eligius in his sermons denounced "pagan customs" that the people followed.
It's a pagan custom anyway, decorating fir trees.
He also compares ancient Roman traditions with pagan Lithuanian customs.
Paul alludes to a pagan custom, rare indeed in the Jewish world, whereby a man might adopt the children of another family into his own.
Many pagan customs were adopted by the new Church.
Some pagan customs from the old pre-Christian tradition remain the folklore of Brittany.
The pagan custom of furnished burial may have reached a natural culmination as Christianity began to make its mark.
Czech folklore was influenced by a mix of Christian and pagan customs.
Old pagan custom, this collection of greenery and flowers.
It was a pagan custom, and it became a Christian one in the Balkans as the people were converted.