The Great Persecutor

In mid three 11, after having spent the last few years fully resigned to the fact that he was never going to be the great puppet master that diocletian had been, galerius got sick. And if you believe eusebius, the christian writer who took particular joy in the suffering of the great persecutor, like no matter how many baths he took, the stench of galerius rotting insides could be smelled throughout the city. In essence, the persecution has failed spectacularly, and it is time to admit defeat. But galerius would fail even in his attempt to end the persecution in the east. All that was the only place it was really