The Great Persecution

Diocletian orders the churches destroyed and the scriptures handed over and burned, until the edicts of toleration of 311 and 313. Those who handed over the books were called traditores, the root of the word traitor.

How it was checked

• EvidenceT7 PRIMARY DOCUMENT / MEASUREMENT; Status: ADDED 2026-09-30; a capture
• Letter eraTHE WITNESSES AND THE TURN 44 to 312 AD
• SourcesLactantius, On the Deaths of the Persecutors 12–13; Eusebius, Church History 8.2.