Heresy and Heretics
Powerful heresy that taught that the material world was evil and only the spiritual world is good.
What is Gnosticism?
Festivities in Rome that were held every hundred years that included fights to the deaths and other bloody competitions.
What were the secular games?
Name of the 40 year period beginning in 260 when Christians were not persecuted.
What was the Long Peace?
Who was Maxentius?
Heresy that taught that the God of the Old Testament was a false God.
What was Marcionism?
Emperor who started the first empire-wide persecution of Christians.
Who was Decius?
The year which Galerius, dying of cancer, passed an Edict of Toleration.
When was 311?
Famous bridge where Constantine saw victory and become ruler of the West.
What was Milvian Bridge?
Heretic who taught that he had the same authority as scripture believing he was a prophet himself.
Who was Montanus?
Emperor who proclaimed an edict in 303 that began the worst persecution the world had ever seen at that point.
Who was Diocletian?
Emperor who passed the first edicts of toleration in 260.
Who was Gallienus?
Christian thinker, saint, and martyr who showed the Greek philosophy was not contrary to Christianity and that Jesus was the Logos.
Who was St. Justin Martyr?
Former defender of the Church who eventually leaves to join the Montanists and then created his own sect.
Who was Tertullian?
Who was Galerius?
The two Augusti who passed the Edict of Milan in 313.
Who was Constantine and Licinius?
Significant defender of the Christian faith and bishop of Lyons in Gaul who wrote Adversus Haereses (Against Heresis).
Who was St. Irenaeus?
Heretic who believed that Christ's love was so strong that hen Satan would be redeemed.
Who was Origen?
Galerius' nephew who was Caesar of the East who killed or enslaved any Christian who did not make the ritual sacrifice to Rome.
Who was Maximinus Daia?
Name name of the old Greek City that would later be called Nova Roma, the new Christian capitol of the world.
What was Byzantium?
The maid, and future saint, of Saint Perpetua who gave birth in a Roman jail cell before being killed in the Roman arena.
Who was St. Felicity?