Very little is known about the real St George. He is thought to have been ... of soldier and became part of the retinue of the Emperor Diocletian. The emperor ordered the systematic persecution ...

St George is the patron saint of England ... And instead of being a knight, he was a Roman soldier, at the time of Emperor Diocletian in the 4th century. And this was when the real story began.

Some 1,700 years on, the Emperor Diocletian would still recognise his palace – or the shell of it, at least. This vast, rectangular complex fell into disuse in the sixth century, 300 years after ...

Tulio Huggins on the challenge of human dignity under the 47th U.S. president, who may resemble a Roman Emperor of old.

St George was a Christian martyr and became a soldier in the Roman army. He later progressed to the role of a personal guard ...

In the fourth century AD, when the Roman emperor ... Diocletian was notorious for persecuting Christians. But a thousand years ago, his mausoleum was converted into the Cathedral of St. Dominus.