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Eusebius Of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History, 8.5.1

nan Immediately on the publication of the decree against the churches in Nicomedia, a certain man, not obscure but very highly honored with distinguished temporal dignities, moved with zeal toward God, and incited with ardent faith, seized the edict as it was posted openly and publicly, and tore it to pieces as a profane and impious thing; and this was done while two of the sovereigns were in the same city — the oldest of all, and the one who held the fourth place in the government after him.

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1. Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History, 8.2.4, 8.6.10, 8.11.1 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) 8.2.4. It was in the nineteenth year of the reign of Diocletian, in the month Dystrus, called March by the Romans, when the feast of the Saviour's passion was near at hand, that royal edicts were published everywhere, commanding that the churches be leveled to the ground and the Scriptures be destroyed by fire, and ordering that those who held places of honor be degraded, and that the household servants, if they persisted in the profession of Christianity, be deprived of freedom. 8.6.10. And as other decrees followed the first, directing that those in prison if they would sacrifice should be permitted to depart in freedom, but that those who refused should be harassed with many tortures, how could any one, again, number the multitude of martyrs in every province, and especially of those in Africa, and Mauritania, and Thebais, and Egypt? From this last country many went into other cities and provinces, and became illustrious through martyrdom. 8.11.1. A small town of Phrygia, inhabited solely by Christians, was completely surrounded by soldiers while the men were in it. Throwing fire into it, they consumed them with the women and children while they were calling upon Christ. This they did because all the inhabitants of the city, and the curator himself, and the governor, with all who held office, and the entire populace, confessed themselves Christians, and would not in the least obey those who commanded them to worship idols.
2. Lactantius, Deaths of The Persecutors, 13.1 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
arnobius,alludes to diocletians oracles	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 67
baynes,n. h.	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 67
beatrice,p.,argument about viri novi	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 67
churches,destruction of	Dijkstra and Raschle (2020), Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity, 203
diocletian,witnesses christians burning	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 67
enslavement	Dijkstra and Raschle (2020), Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity, 203
eusebius,and the persecution in egypt	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 67
gallienus	Dijkstra and Raschle (2020), Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity, 203
lactantius	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 67
liebeschuetz,j. h. w. g.	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 67
martyrs,in phrygia	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 67
nicomedia	Dijkstra and Raschle (2020), Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity, 203
oracles,preceding the persecution	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 67
p,the codex parisinus (1661) of the adv. nat.	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 67
persecution of	Dijkstra and Raschle (2020), Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity, 203
persecutions,of christians'	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 67
scriptures,destruction of	Dijkstra and Raschle (2020), Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity, 203
terminalia	Dijkstra and Raschle (2020), Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity, 203
terminus	Dijkstra and Raschle (2020), Religious Violence in the Ancient World: From Classical Athens to Late Antiquity, 203
tetrarchy	Simmons(1995), Arnobius of Sicca: Religious Conflict and Competition in the Age of Diocletian, 67