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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20GRAECO-CATHOLICA%20VARADIENSIS - Issue no. 1 / 2012  
         
  Article:   THE ROMAN LEGISLATION AGAINST CHRISTIANS DURING THE REIGN OF DIOCLETIAN AND THE TOLERANCE EDICT OF GALERIU OF THE YEAR 311 / LEGISLAŢIA ROMANĂ ÎMPOTRIVA CREŞTINILOR DIN VREMEA LUI DIOCLEŢIAN ŞI EDICTUL DE TOLERANŢĂ AL LUI GALERIU DIN ANUL 311.

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  Abstract:  The Roman Legislation against Christians during the Reign of Diocletian and the Tolerance Edict of Galeriu of the Year 311. The Diocletianic Persecution (or the Great Persecution) was the last and most severe persecution of Christians in the Roman empire. In 303, Emperor Diocletian and Maximian, Galerius, and Constantius issued a series of edicts rescinding the legal rights of Christians and demanding that they comply with traditional Roman religious practices. Later edicts targeted the clergy and demanded universal sacrifice, ordering all inhabitants to sacrifice to the gods. The persecution varied in intensity across the empire—weakest in Gaul and Britain, where only the first edict was applied, and strongest in the Eastern provinces. Persecutory laws were nullified by different emperors at different times, but Constantine and Licinius’s Edict of Milan (313) has traditionally marked the end of the persecution.

Keywords: Diocletian, Galerius, Roman emperors, Roman law, toleration edict.

 
         
     
         
         
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