Episode 3: The Age of Persecution
This Week In Free Speech with Jacob Mchangama
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Diocletian's Persecutors
Some historians argue that porphyry may have been at the heart of inciting diocletian and his more than eager junior emperor galerius to go all in on persecution. Diocletian issued a number of edicts aimed at eradicating christianity from the all churches were to be destroyed, meetings for christian worship were prohibited. In thessalonici, three women were interrogated by a roman prefect, demanding to know if they had christian writings. One of the women, irene, was charged with kept many parchments, books, tablets, codices and pages of unholy writings of the former christians. Irene and the other women
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