That was actually my next question. So we have the conversion of the Emperor Constantine to Christianity in what, 312, which is right after the edict of toleration. And then you get the edict of Milan, which is this freedom of religious expression. What effects did these things have on the empire as a whole? And on the life of your average day-to-day Christian?

Right. Yeah. Well, they had a huge effect. Well, I'm sure we'll have an episode just on the conversion of Constantine. For one thing, I really think he did convert. Many people say, I, you know, it's just a political ploy. There's reasons to maybe think that, but I don't think it's right. I think there's really good reasons for not thinking it. I think he really did convert. He was one of the, one of the emperors, but because of various political things, it ended up that the four emperors had become two Constantine, and he had a, he had a colleague in the east. He was the emperor of the western part in the Albanians of the emperor of the east. They got together Constantine converted in 312th, and the persecution was still officially going on. He called a halt to persecution. He and La Bany's got together, and they issued this decree that made it okay for anybody to worship any way they wanted to, as long as you weren't like, you know, doing nasty things to other human beings. That did make a big effect. It's not that it made the empire Christian. Constantine did not declare Christianity the official religion of Rome. People think he did, and he did not. He did not declare Christianity the official religion. He made it a legal religion. It was lisset now. It had been more or less declared illegal by these decrees in the two fifties in the early three hundreds, but he makes it a lisset religion. And so what that does is it removes all penalties, especially for the elite. There is hesitancy among people like in the city of Rome itself to become a, if you're a senator, if you were a Christian, you could be, you could have all of your property confiscated. So elites, especially, were reluctant because they had a lot to lose, and they would lose it. And so what this ends up doing is it makes it possible for people to convert without fear of reprisal. The emperor himself is a Christian. And so it's not that everybody jumps on the bandwagon right away, but people start to jump on the bandwagon. And for that reason, it's a huge thing because now there's no problem really with converting anymore. And that we'll talk about in a later episode whether that really is what opened all the floodgates, but it certainly opened the floodgates to many of the elite, I would say.