Diocletianic Persecution

Saint Nicholas of Myra, also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara in Anatolia during the time of the Roman Empire. Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nicholas the Wonderworker. Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, toymakers, unmarried people, and students in various cities and countries around Europe. His reputation evolved among the pious, as was common for early Christian saints, and his legendary habit of secret gift-giving gave rise to the folklore of Santa Claus through Sinterklaas.

Egyptian Christian monk, hermit, and saint (died 356)

Pope and bishop of Rome (tenure 296-304)

pope

legalization of Christianity in the Roman Empire, 313

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Sammarinese saint

Christian feast day dedicated to Lucy of Syracuse and observed on 13 December

Coptic pope of Alexandria

edict ending the Diocletianic persecution of Christianity in the East of the Roman Empire

In a number of Christian traditions, including Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Lutheranism and Anglicanism, a confessor is a priest who hears the confessions of penitents and pronounces absolution.

(303-313) last and most severe persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire

Christian ecclesiastical synod held at Elvira in the Roman province of Hispania Baetica

earliest Old French poem

legendary post-Roman king of north Britain

method of numbering years used by the Church of Alexandria beginning in the 4th century AD and by the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria from the 5th century

Late 3rd-century Roman politician

4th-century martyr and saint

group of legendary saints

late 3rd/early 4th century Roman aristocrat and official

"Autonomus" is a frequent misspelling of "autonomous".

Roman senator

painting by Artemisia Gentileschi

bishop

Old English poem by Cynewulf about the life and martyrdom of St. Juliana of Nicomedia

bishop and martyr

ancient church near Tel Megiddo, Israel