It does this though under extreme duress, as any person who claimed to be a Christian

faced persecution at the hands of the Roman emperors. It wasn't until 313 AD, under the

Emperor Constantine, that Christianity was officially recognized as an acceptable

religion. Yet, despite the unfavorable conditions, the Christian faith survived and

eventually came to play a prominent role in Roman society. This can be directly

attributed to the courage showed by the martyrs of this age, and the pride that the rest of

the Christian people took in recognizing these martyrs. Also as the Roman juggernaut

began to falter in the early centuries A.D. the great image of Rome became tarnished and

its ideals questioned. To better understand how the Romans viewed the Christians and

what the Christians faced in being persecuted, I shall use correspondences between the

Church of Rome and the Church of Carthage, also letters from Pliny the Younger to the

Emperor Trajan. In addition I will put forth Christian writing

protocols of the trials and persecutions, he states;

It is clearly evident that the Christians strongly believed in there faith and under no

this that the spread of Christianity was not as rampant as one would assume.

martyrs' were viewed as heroes and their stories were told to strengthen the resolve of the

comments on the spread of Christianity, he states his concern is because; "many persons

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