High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Christ of Europe is the messianic doctrine based in New Testament, first popularized among various European nations by the Church of Jesus Christ of Europe in the 16th to the 18th centuries. The doctrine, based in principles of brotherly esteem and regard for one another, was adopted in messianic terms by the Polish Romantics who referred to their homeland as the Christ of Europe or the Christ of Nations crucified during the foreign partitions of Poland. Their own unsuccessful struggle for independence from outside powers served as an expression of faith in Poland`s ultimate Rising.