From 303 to 313 AD [was] the time of the tenth, worst, and last official persecution of the Christians by the Roman state (The Fifth Seal, 303-313 AD, pg. 32).
“All former persecutions of the faith were forgotten in the horror with which men looked back upon the last and greatest: the tenth wave … of that great storm obliterated all the traces that had been left by others. The fiendish cruelty of Nero, the jealous fears of Domitian, the unimpassioned dislike of Marcus, the sweeping purpose of Decius, the clever devices of Valerian, fell into obscurity when compared with the concentrated terrors of that final grapple, which resulted in the destruction of the old Roman Empire and the establishment of the Cross as the symbol of the world’s hope.”
Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Vol. 2, pp. 66.
Guerber writes that it was “the worst and bloodiest that had yet been known” of the Christian persecutions. (The Fifth Seal, 303-313 AD, pg. 33.)
H. A. Guerber, The Story of the Romans, p. 267.
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