Diocletian
![[Diocletian]](http://saints.sqpn.com/ncd02723.jpg "Diocletian")
Also known as
- Valerius Diocletianus
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Emperor of Rome from 284 to 305. He distinguished himself in the Persian War and was chosen emperor by the army. As the empire was unwieldly and exposed to attack, he associated with himself Maximian, with whom he celebrated the last triumph in Rome, 20 November 303, and further distributed his power by granting the inferior title of Cæsar to two generals, Galerius and Constantius Chlorus. During the greater portion of Diocletian’s reign, Christians enjoyed peace and prosperity, but under the influence of Galerius he inaugurated, beginning in 303, the last and most terrible of the ten persecutions of the early Church, which was waged with greatest severity in the East.
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Profiled saints who are known to have been martyred in the persecutions of Diocletian include
- Four Crowned Martyrs
- Innumerable Martyrs of Saragossa
- Martyrs of Rome
- Martyrs of Saragossa
- Martyrs of Trier
- Saint Aaron of Caerleon
- Saint Abundantia the Martyr
- Saint Aceolus of Amiens
- Saint Acius of Amiens
- Saint Actinea of Volterra
- Saint Afra
- Saint Agricola of Bologna
- Saint Albian of Albee
- Saint Alexander
- Saint Alexander of Thessalonica
- Saint Anastasius the Fuller
- Saint Andronicus
- Saint Ansanus the Baptizer
- Saint Autonomus
- Saint Celestine of Alexandria
- Saint Clement of Cordoba
- Saint Cosmas
- Saint Crescentinus
- Saint Crispin of Thagura
- Saint Crispina
- Saint Cyriacus of Málaga
- Saint Damian
- Saint Diodorus the Deacon
- Saint Dominica of Campania
- Saint Domnio
- Saint Dorothy of Caesarea
- Saint Duje
- Saint Eleutherius
- Saint Erasmus
- Saint Faith
- Saint Felix of Milan
- Saint Felix of Thagura
- Saint Felix of Vicenza
- Saint Firmina of Amelia
- Saint Florentia of Agde
- Saint Florian of Lorch
- Saint Fortunatus of Vicenza
- Saint Genesius of Rome
- Saint Germanus of Alexandria
- Saint Grace
- Saint Gracilian
- Saint Gratus
- Saint Gratus of Thagura
- Saint Gurias of Edessa
- Saint Heliodorus
- Saint Hilary of Viterbo
- Saint Irenaeus of Thessalonica
- Saint Irene of Thessalonica
- Saint Julia of Lisbon
- Saint Julia the Martyr
- Saint Julius of Thagura
- Saint Justina of Padua
- Saint Justus of Trieste
- Saint Laurentia
- Saint Marcellinus
- Saint Mary the Slave
- Saint Maura of Antinoe
- Saint Maxima
- Saint Maxima of Lisbon
- Saint Modestus of Agde
- Saint Nabor of Milan
- Saint Neopolus of Alexandria
- Saint Olympiades
- Saint Orestes
- Saint Palatias
- Saint Papias
- Saint Papulus
- Saint Paula of Málaga
- Saint Peter the Exorcist
- Saint Potamia of Thagura
- Saint Proculus the Soldier
- Saint Quintilian of Saragossa
- Saint Restituta of Carthage
- Saint Rhodopianus the Deacon
- Saint Romulus the Martyr
- Saint Rufinus of Soissons
- Saint Saturninus of Alexandria
- Saint Saturninus of Cagliari
- Saint Sebastian
- Saint Secundian the Martyr
- Saint Secundus of Amelia
- Saint Serenus the Gardener
- Saint Sergius of Caesarea
- Saint Tiberius of Agde
- Saint Timothy of Antinoe
- Saint Urban of Saragossa
- Saint Valentine of Trier
- Saint Valentine of Viterbo
- Saint Valerius of Soissons
- Saint Verissimus of Lisbon
- Saint Victorinus of Pettau
- Saint Vincent of Bevagna
- Saint Vincent of Saragossa
- Saint Zeno of Nicomedia
- Saint Zosimus of Cilicia
