Diocletianic Persecution

The Diocletian persecution of Christians was the last and worst of the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. 303 enacted the Roman Emperor Diocletian, Maximian, Galerius and Constantius a series of edicts with which they revoked the rights of Christians and required them to sacrifice to the Roman gods. Later edicts targeted the clergy and demanded that all residents would have to sacrifice to the gods. The persecution was are different, the weakest in Gaul and in Britain, where only the first edict was applied, and most of the eastern provinces. The edicts were repealed by various emperors at different times, but usually the Edict of Milan ( 313) is considered the end of the persecutions.

Martyr

The following holy martyrs during the reign of Emperor Diocletian killed ( with date and place of her martyrdom ):

  • Chrysanthus and Daria (October 25, 283, Rome)
  • Nicaise, Quirinus, Scubiculus and Pientia (October 11, 285, Gaul )
  • Castulus (26 March 286, Rome) and his wife, Irene of Rome († 288 )
  • Mark and Marcellian (June 18, 286, Rome)
  • Tiburtius of Rome and Susanna Concordia (11 August 286, Rome)
  • Sebastian (January 20, 288, Rome)
  • Victor of Marseilles (July 21, 290, Rome)
  • Caius ( bishop of Rome) (April 22, 296, Rome)
  • Marcellus of Tangier, (October 29, 298, Tangier )
  • Cassian of Tangier (3 December 298, Tangier )
  • Gabinus (May 30, 300, Porto Torres)
  • Sabinus of Assisi (7 December 300, Spoleto )
  • Anthony of Antioch, Celsus and Marcionilla (January 9, 302)
  • Eulalia of Barcelona (12 February 303, Barcelona)
  • Quirinus of Tegernsee (25 March 303)
  • Cessianus (303)
  • Engratia (April 16, 303, Zaragoza )
  • Georg ( Saint) (April 23, 303, Nicomedia )
  • Victor Maurus (May 8, 303, Milan)
  • Agathius (May 8, 303, Byzantium )
  • Erasmus of Antioch (2 June 303, Rome)
  • Vitus (June 15, 303, Lucania )
  • Cyriacus (8 August 303, Rome)
  • Alexander of Bergamo (26 August 303, Rome)
  • Anastasius of Antioch, Julian and Basilissa (January 9, 304, Antioch )
  • Agnes of Rome (January 21, 304, Rome)
  • Vincent of Valencia (22 January 304, Valencia )
  • Martyrs of the holy books, including Victoria of Abitinae (from February 12 304 Abitinae )
  • Gorgonius of Rome (12 March 304, Nicomidia )
  • Agape, Chione and Irene (April 3, 304, Macedonia ( province ) )
  • Florian of Lorch (4 May 304, Lauriacum )
  • Margaret of Antioch (July 20, 304)
  • Proculus of Pozzuoli and Januarius (18th October 304, Solfatara )
  • Fidelis of Como (October 28, 304, North Shore of Lake Como )
  • Acisclus (17 November 304, Córdoba )
  • Leocadia (~ 304 December 9, Toledo )
  • Eulalia of Mérida (10 December 304, Emerita Augusta)
  • Vincent, Orontius and Victor (January 22, 305, Puigcerdà )
  • Aphian (2 April 305, Caesarea Maritima )
  • Quiricus and Julietta (15 July 305, Tarsus )
  • Catherine of Alexandria (November 25, 305, Alexandria )
  • Agapius and companions (20 November 306, Caesarea Maritima )
  • Pamphilus of Caesarea (February 16, 309, Caesarea Maritima )
  • Quirinus of Sescia (June 4, 309, Sescia )
  • Petros I. (25 November 311, Alexandria )
  • Chrysogomus ( November 24, year unknown, Aquileia )
  • Achatius of Byzantium (27 November unbek year, Sebaste )
  • Anastasia of Sirmium (December 22, year unknown, Sirmium )
  • Leontius of Perga
  • Attius of Perga
  • Alexander von Perga
  • Apodemus Saragossa
  • Maura and Britta from Tours
  • Philomena of Rome
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