What is the significance of christ's presence during the crowning of emperors in byzantine art?

   It symbolizes the connection between the church and the byzantine emperors

Explanation:  In Byzantium, there was a close relationship between emperors and the Church. This meant political support, and in particular in the case of the crowning of the emperor, the blessing of the Church was extremely important as evidence of God's endorsement of the mandate given to the emperor.

Thus, the Byzantine art depicted emperors during their crowning with the motif of Christ, who symbolically approves the crowning of the emperor not only as a secular ruler of the empire, but also an emperor who would obey and rule according to the laws of God. Such motives of Christ and the crowned emperors were common in the Byzantine Churches in the form of icons.

the california missions began in the late 18th century as an effort to convert native americans to catholicism and expand european territory. there were 21 missions in all, lasting from 1769 until about 1833.   the missions were built by the spanish starting in 1769 in order to “colonize” the territory of alta california. so the missions were important because they were the means of settling california. it also wanted to keep other european countries out of alta california. building settlements along the coast would them meet these goals. missionaries wanted to convert the indians to the roman catholic faith. california indians did much of the work to build missions.

originally he was supposed to be dead but they wanted to continue the series so they brought him back to life.