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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herberto, post: 4330244, member: 74222&quot;]Hello once again</p><p><br /></p><p>Basically Byzantine Empire is still &quot;Late Roman Empire&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There is a primary source called “Primary Chronicle” which deals with the conversion of Vladimir I of Kyiv. Muslims, Jews and the Christians arrived to his court to convince him of the truth of their own religion. The Christians of Constantinople eventually won him. But I don’t completely understand the whole details.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>From: <a href="https://www2.stetson.edu/~psteeves/classes/russianprimarychronicle.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www2.stetson.edu/~psteeves/classes/russianprimarychronicle.html" rel="nofollow">https://www2.stetson.edu/~psteeves/classes/russianprimarychronicle.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It begins from “VLADIMIR CHRISTIANIZES RUSSIA”.</p><p><br /></p><p>---------------------------</p><p>Then came the Germans, asserting that they were come as emissaries of the Pope. They added, &quot;Thus says the Pope: &#039;Your country is like our country, but your faith is not as ours. For our faith is the light. We worship God, who had made heaven and earth, the stars, the moon, and every creature, while your gods are only wood.&#039;&quot; Vladimir inquired what their teaching was. They replied, &quot;fasting according to one&#039;s own strength. But whatever one eats or drinks is all to the glory of God, as our teacher Paul has said.&quot; Then Vladimir answered, &quot;Depart hence; our fathers accepted no such principle.&quot;</p><p>...........................................</p><p><br /></p><p>Why did Vladimir refute them and said &quot;depart hence&quot; ?&nbsp;&nbsp; Because Vladimir did not like fasting? (Because the Greeks do it I think, and he picked their religion)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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