Miltiades was pope when Constantine issued the Edict of Milan ... Remember that a decade earlier, the Empire was in the throes of the Diocletian Persecution, the last but rather severe persecution ...

Archaeologists uncovered a boundary stone, used to mark land borders during the Roman Empire, dated to a period during which the empire was jointly ruled by four emperors. The boundary stone—located ...

He was imprisoned during the Diocletian persecution and only released when Constantine the Great came to power and made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire. He is also called ...

The persecutions that began under Diocletian, however ... The persecution came to an end in 313, when the co-emperors Constantine and Licinius signed the Edict of Milan, which granted tolerance ...