This week marks the 1,716th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Persecution initiated during the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian in AD 303.
This article includes long passages from Lactantius, so I'm excerpting. Lactantius was an eye-witness to the events and later the tutor of Constantine the Great's son, Crispus.
1 posted on 02/26/2019 9:51:04 AM PST by Antoninus