Christian
one who believes or professes the religion of Christ; a follower of Christ.
CHRISTIAN I., King of Denmark and Norway from 1448 to 1481.
CHRISTIAN II., the Cruel, succeeded CHRISTIAN CHURCH his father, John, in 1513. His cruelties 000 volumes. The annual enrollment is his father, John, in 1513. His cruelties and exactions caused his name to be unicompelled to sign his own abdication, round Gustavus Vasa, and Christian was compelled to sign his own abdication, 1523. He began wandering over Europe in the hope of enlisting partisans in his cause, but was at last taken prisoner, and thrown into confinement, where he died in 1559.
CHRISTIAN III., succeeded his father, Frederick I., and died in 1559. CHRISTIAN IV., succeeded his father, Frederick II., in 1588; spent his life in the German wars, and died in 1648. CHRISTIAN V., succeeded Frederick III. in 1670, and died in 1699, after a long and fruitless war against Sweden.
CHRISTIAN VI., succeeded his father, Frederick IV., 1730, and died in 1746.
CHRISTIAN VII., succeeded his father, Frederick V., in 1766, and in the same year married Caroline Matilda, sister of George III. of England. The dissipations of his early life had enfeebled his energies and rendered him unfit for government. The management of the state was, in consequence, seized first by Count Bernstorff and later by Struensee. In 1784, Christian being incapacitated by mental disease, his son, Frederick VI., came to the head of the government, as joint regent with the queen-mother. Christian died in 1808.
CHRISTIAN VIII., Duke of Schles- Frederick VI. in 1839, as King of Denmark only, and died in 1848. CHRISTIAN IX., (of Schleswigin 1818, succeeded Frederick VII. as King of Denmark, in 1863. His second son, George, was, in 1863, elected King of Greece, and of his daughters Alexandra married the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII. of England, and Dagmar Greece, and of his daughters Alexandra married the Prince of Wales, later King Alexander III. He died Jan. 29, 1906.
CHRISTIAN X., King of Denmark, Alexander III. He died Jan. 29, 1906. 1870, the son of King Frederick VIII. He succeeded his father to the throne of Denmark on the death of the latter in May 14, 1912. In 1898 he married Alexsucceeded his father to the throne of has two sons, Frederick, the Crown Prince, born in 1899; and Knud, born in CHRISTIAN BROTHERS' COLLEGE, a Roman Catholic institution for higher education in St. Louis, Mo., chartered in commercial, and preparatory departments. The library contains about 20,- 000 volumes. The annual enrollment is about 500.
CHRISTIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, a denominational organization, founded in 1896 by the Rev. John Alexander Dowie, a former Congregational minister lowing by preaching faith healing and in Australia. He attracted a large fol- Chicago, where a large amount of property was acquired and many institutions and business enterprises were founded. of the prophet Elijah. He established Chicago, where a large amount of propand business enterprises were founded. erty was acquired and many institutions Dowie was successful in securing a large attempted to carry on a missionary camand the ridicule which followed it led paign in New York. This was a failure finally to his deposition and death. He and the ridicule which followed it led was succeeded by W. G. Voliva as Overseer of the Church. The religious ascontinued. Difficulties arose, however, continued. Difficulties arose, however, which resulted in financial complications and in 1910 the enterprises of Zion City has branches in Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, and in various parts of Europe.