
Early Christian Martyrdom
In Our Time: Religion
The Great Persecution of the Roman Empire
The great persecution has to be understood as an attempt, not so much to eliminate a specific group as to put the empire on a new basis of divine favor. The low born, its women, its children, its slaves, who are equally capable of dying in a noble and philosophical way. Was this big cution from three o three to three o nine? It's very hard to do because there are so many subversive groups in the empire. We know of few the ones that eusebius thought were interesting and important, we hear a lot about.
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