The Great Persecution: A Box of Three Coins. Diocletian, Galerius and Maximian

The Great Persecution: A Box of Three Coins. Diocletian, Galerius and Maximian in a  (Wooden  Mahogany Finished Box)

The last and worst of the ten persecutions of the early Church was ordered by Diocletian (286 to 305 AD), who enjoyed a relatively long and fruitful reign at the end of the third century. Although the Great Persecution is also known as the Diocletianic Persecution, for most of his reign, Christianity was tolerated in the Empire—during this period, in fact, there were many new converts to the faith. It was at the behest of his subordinates, Galerius Caesar in (293 AD) and an Augustus in (305 AD), ruling as an emperor until his death in (311 AD)  and Maximian (286 to 305 AD) —who oversaw the Eastern Empire under the Tetrarchy—that Diocletian turned against the Christians. In the event, the persecutions continued for seven years after Diocletian abdicated. Thousands of Christians were martyred—and not in vain. Within a generation, Constantine the Great would make Christianity the official state religion of the Roman Empire.

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