Decius
c. 201 CE–c. 251 CE · Sremska Mitrovica
Decius (born c. 201 at Budalia in Pannonia Inferior, near Sirmium, died June 251) was a Roman emperor who fell fighting the Goths at the Battle of Abritus, the first Roman emperor killed in battle against a foreign enemy. In 250 he issued an empire-wide edict requiring all inhabitants to sacrifice to the Roman gods before a magistrate and obtain a certificate (libellus); surviving libelli from Egypt document its enforcement. The measure triggered the first systematic, empire-wide persecution of Christians, during which Fabian, the bishop of Rome, died in custody in January 250; the persecution lapsed after Decius's death.
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