Papal Vault – Earliest Popes: Diocletian’s Persecution
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Papal Vault – Earliest Popes: Diocletian’s Persecution

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 1, 202631 min

The Great Peace of the Church gave Christianity room to grow, but that calm shattered under Diocletian’s brutal persecution. This episode follows Popes Caius, Marcellinus, Marcellus, and Eusebius through martyr stories, lapsed Christians, Donatist tensions, and the violence that shook the Roman church before Constantine’s rise. #HistoryOfThePapacy #ChurchHistory #EarlyChristianity #Diocletian #Donatists Let us know what you think about this episode in the comments section below! Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast on the links below and on YouTube! Support the show and listen: Patreon: http://patreon.com/historyofthepapacy Buy m...

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Welcome back to the History of the Papacy podcast, a podcast about the Popes of Rome and Christian Church. Prepare yourself to step behind the ropes and leave the official tour of the story of the Popes and Christianity.

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I am your host, Steve Guarra, and I thank you for joining me on this journey. In the last episode, we left the Roman Church and the Church in general in pretty decent shape. saw a long stretch of time where the Christian Church was, if not officially recognized,

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it was left alone at least. After the major persecution of the Emperor Decius and the much less serious persecution of Aurelian, the Christian Church across the Empire entered a time called the Great Peace of the Church.

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