Decian persecution

Origen of Alexandria (), also known as Origen Adamantius, was an early Christian scholar, ascetic, and theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria. He was a prolific writer who wrote roughly 2,000 treatises in multiple branches of theology, including textual criticism, biblical exegesis and hermeneutics, homiletics, and spirituality. He was one of the most influential and controversial figures in early Christian theology, apologetics, and asceticism. He has been described by John Anthony McGuckin as "the greatest genius the early church ever produced".

pope Saint (251 to 253)

pope and bishop of Rome from 236 to 250

Christian saint and martyress (235–261)

saint in the Catholic and Orthodox church

story in Christian folklore and the Qur'an

Novatian (Greek: , , ) was a scholar, priest, and theologian. He is considered by the Catholic Church to have been an antipope between 251 and 258. Some Greek authors give his name as Novatus, who was an African presbyter.

3rd-century Bishop of Paris and saint

Saturnin of Toulouse (, , , , and , , and ) was one of the "Apostles to the Gauls" sent out (probably under the direction of Pope Fabian, 236–250) during the consulate of Decius and Gratus (250–251) to Christianise Gaul after the persecutions under Emperor Decius had all but dissolved the small Christian communities. Fabian sent out seven bishops from Rome to Gaul to preach the Gospel: Gatien to Tours, Trophimus to Arles, Paul to Narbonne, Saturnin to Toulouse, Denis to Paris, Austromoine to Clermont, and Martial to Limoges. His feast day is 29 November.

early 4th-century Spanish saint

Christian bishop and saint

Greek soldier and Christian martyr (died 250)

Patriarch of Antioch from 237 to 253

priest and saint

Christian martyrs of the 3rd century

Novatianism or Novationism was an early Christian sect devoted to the theologian Novatian () that held a strict view that refused readmission to communion of lapsi (those baptized Christians who had denied their faith or performed the formalities of a ritual sacrifice to the pagan gods under the pressures of the persecution sanctioned by Emperor Decius in AD 250). The Church of Rome declared the Novatianists heretical following the letters of Saint Cyprian of Carthage and Ambrose wrote against them. Novatianism survived until the 8th century.

Egyptian saint

Christians who bowed to external pressure

Christian saint

Christian martyr and saint

group of legendary saints

Christian persecution resulting from Roman edict (249–251)

Greek bishop and saint

martyred nun under emperor Valerian

Christian martyr (†250)

Christian deacon and martyr

Catholic saints

Saint Minias (died 250 AD), also known as Minas () or Miniatus (), is venerated as the first Christian martyr of Florence. The church of San Miniato al Monte is dedicated to him. According to legend, he was an Armenian king or prince serving in the Roman Army – or making a penitential pilgrimage to Rome – who had decided to become a hermit near Florence.

thumb|250px|Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 3929, a libellus from the [[Decian persecution, found in Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.]] A libellus (plural libelli) in the Roman Empire was any brief document written on individual pages (as opposed to scrolls or tablets), particularly official documents issued by governmental authorities.

Christian saint

Cointha, also known as Quinta or "Cynthia", suffered martyrdom during the persecutions of Emperor Trajanus Decius. Cointha was martyred by having her feet tied to a horse then being dragged through the streets of Alexandria.

child martyr killed ca. 250 AD in Ravenna, Italy

married couple

saint martyred under Decius

two people

cave in Jordan

Virgin Martyr and Saint

martyrs

Christian martyrs put to death in 250

Egyptian saint

bishop of Carthage