- ordered a series of edicts
first edict
- newly built churches were demolished
- demanded all spiritual thing to me demolished
- prohibited assembling for worship
- but people stopped worshiping in public
- worshiped in private
- thought people who died for there religion were inspiration
- all Christians were stripped of there rankings
- wanted to eliminate the Christians
- ordered arrests
- imprisoned bishops and priests
- ordered to imprison clergymen
- forced then to come out in public and sacrifice there religion
- if they didn't they would be executed
Constantine's connection to Christianity
- before he prayed to different gods and decided to try the Christian God
- before they went into battle he saw Christ that promised his victory
- he also built up the Roman army
- he shared his power with other emperors
- means that you cant persecute anyone because of there religion
- said that if you get your land taken away that you get it back
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