This edict is important first of all because it put an end to nearly three hundred years of persecution against the Christian Church and gave her equal rights with all the other religions of the Roman ...

In 313 AD, the Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, which accepted Christianity: 10 years later, it had become the official religion of the Roman Empire.

In the fourth and fifth centuries, Christianity spread through Rome. Some historians have argued that the rise of a new faith helped push the empire over the edge. The Edict of Milan legalized the ...

Protected by Rome and allowed to continue their religion, everything was fine until rebellion in Judaea led to a major change in the practice of their faith. By the beginning of the first century ...