List of martyrs of the Diocletian persecution of Christians

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The Diocletian persecution of Christians was the last and worst of the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire . In 303 the Roman emperors Diocletian , Maximian , Galerius and Constantius issued a series of edicts with which they revoked the rights of Christians and required them to sacrifice to the Roman gods .

Map of the Roman Empire at the time of the First Roman Tetrarchy , from AD 293

Later edicts were aimed at the clergy and required that all residents ( Roman citizenship ) must sacrifice to the gods. Persecution varied in severity, weakest in Gaul and Britain , where only the First Edict was applied, and most severe in the eastern provinces. The edicts were lifted by different emperors at different times, but the Edict of Milan (313 AD) is usually considered to be the end of the persecutions.

The Last Prayer of the Christian Martyrs , by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1883)
Martyrdom of St. Chrysanthus and Daria (French manuscript, 14th century)
Lashing of St. Erasmus (fresco now in the Museo Nazionale Romano )
Martyrdom of St. Gorgonius and Dorothea (French manuscript, 14th century)

The following holy martyrs were murdered during the reign of Emperor Diocletian (with the date and place of their martyrdom):

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literature

  • Tilley, Maureen A, trans. Donatist Martyr Stories: The Church in Conflict in Roman North Africa . Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1996.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gaddis, Jan.
  2. ^ Catholic Encyclopedia