Friday, April 16, 2010

Diocletianic Persecution

The last and most serve persecution of the Christians in the Roman Empire. In 303, Emperor Diocletian and his colleagues. They did this for their own entertainment. They would starve the lions for a little. Then, they would bring in the Christians and the Emperor and the crowd would watch the lions ripe the Christians apart. But Constantine and Licinius Edict of Milan marked the end of the persecution. Christians had always been the local discrimination in the empire. Christians was compelled to to sacrifice to pagan God or face imprisonment  and execution. The Circus Maximus was another part of the persecution of the Christians. It was an ancient Roman chariot racing and a mass entertainment for the city of Rome.

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