128- The Great Persecution

In 305 AD, Diocletian and Maximian voluntarily abdicated the throne, handing power over to Galerius and Constantius. 

Less than two years after Diocletian's abdication, the Tetrarchy was left in shambles following the power plays of Constantine and Maxentius. 

An exploration of the earliest Christian persecutions. 

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the accounts by Eusebius of Caesarea (c260-339 AD) and others of the killings of Christians in the first three centuries after the crucifixion of Jesus. Eusebius was writing in a time of peace, after The Great Persecution that had started with Empe ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the accounts by Eusebius of Caesarea (c260-339 AD) and others of the killings of Christians in the first three centuries after the crucifixion of Jesus. Eusebius was writing in a time of peace, after The Great Persecution that had started with Empe ...  Show more

Archbishop Eamon Martin, Primate of All Ireland for the Catholic Church, and the Rev David Bruce, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, tell Tara and Declan about the impact their predecessors had during the War of Independence and in the creation of the new states.