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The focused effort by the Christian Church to proselytize the Christian faith to new lands through the work of missionaries. Originally, missionaries traveled beyond the borders of the Roman Empire to find converts. By the Age of Discovery, Christian missionaries were accompanying European explorers and colonial settlers to the New World and beyond.