Christianized sites

San Lorenzo in Miranda occupies the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, Rome, conserving the pronaos.
The Temple of Gaius and Lucius, known today as the Maison Carrée at Nîmes, owes its preservation to its conversion to a church.

The Christianization of sites that had been pagan occurred as a result of conversions in early Christian times, as well as an important part of the strategy of Interpretatio Christiana ("Christian reinterpretation") during the Christianization of pagan peoples.[a] The landscape itself was Christianized, as prominent features were rededicated to Christian saints, sometimes quite directly, as when the island of Oglasa in the Tyrrhenian Sea was christened Montecristo.
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