Diocletian and Galerius - The Great Persecusion of Christians

Diocletian and galerius were in nicomedia over the winter of three o two, three o three, when things finally got going. The emperors had attempted to get a pronouncement on something or other from an oracle of apollo, but the oracle instead announced that the impious on earth were preventing him from connecting with the gods. Diocletian huddled with his counsel to determine what this meant, and they were of one mind. It meant that the gods were angry at rome for tolerating the christians. So the manicheans were ruthlessly suppressed, executions, exiles, con sations and destruction of scripture,. In effect,