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| Brought the fifth great persecution that was particularly fierce in North Africa and Egypt |
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| A martyr that was a pupil of Polycarp and bishop of Lyons in Gaul; Wrote against Gnosticism in "Against all Heresies" |
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| A noblewoman and her faithful slave that were gored to death by beasts in 203 |
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| Brought the sixth persecution; began it by ordering the death of all church leaders. |
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| Brought the seventh great persecution that was worse than the preceding six. |
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| Escaped the persecution under Maximus Thrax, but died in Decius's persecution. Wrote the first book of systematic theology in the early church |
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| Church father who wrote "The whole world is devastated" |
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| Brought the eighth great persecution and was even fiercer than the seventh. |
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| Initiated the ninth great persecution, but was murdered by his own soldiers |
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| Diocletian and co-emperor Maximian |
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| Issued the tenth and greatest persecution and proclaimed themselves Dominus Noster (Our Lord) |
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| Proclaimed toleration for all Christians of the East |
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| Extended recognition and protection to all Christians with his Edict of Milan (AD 313) |
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| Clement of Rome, Ignatius, Polycarp, and Papias |
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| Church fathers who were pupils of the apostle John |
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| Those who attempted to reasonably defend Christianity against pagan defamation |
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| Aristides and Justin Martyr |
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| Two Christian apologists of the early church period who presented a lengthy Apology to Antonius Pius |
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| Proved the superiority of Christianity over Greek philosophy in his "Address to the Greeks" |
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| Contended against the heresy of Monarchianism, which denied the doctrine of the Trinity |
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| Argued for the true deity of Christ at the Council of Nicaea |
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| Translated the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures into the Latin Vulgate (Common, vernacular) |
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| Greatest of the church fathers, wrote Confessions, and the City of God--The first systematic Christian philosophy of history |
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| (I believe) statements of Christians' beliefs |
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| Adopted by the Council of Nicaea in AD 325 that rejected the teaching of Arianism that denied the true deity of Christ |
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| Under him, Christianity became the only legal faith, the state religion of the Roman Empire |
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| Elders that became sacerdotes, who offered up the Lord's body and blood as a sacrifice for the living and dead |
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