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Discovered a couple of tidbits worth noting, regarding who might have been Christian in the Empire...I've located a list of the "Ten Great Persecutions" beginning with Nero and ending with....!!!
Diocletian.
But there were other non-Great persecutions since...I show a Valerian Edict, as late as 257, ordering further persecution of Christians. It's hard to imagine that these persecutions, Great and small, were even executable without significant army loyalty.
There's much made of Constantine's Edict of Milan, but that one had a Christian-tolerant predecessor: an edict issued by Galerius, don't have a formal title for that one. Year 311. Milan was 313. I have here that by the time Constantine defeated Licinius at Adrianople, the citizenry was 50% Christian.
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