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.

St George is understood to have died a martyr for his Christian faith – executed by the Roman Emperor Diocletian in the early ...

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Once a soldier in the Roman army, he rose up the ranks to become a member of the Praetorian Guard for the Emperor Diocletian. However, the tale goes that St George was tortured and later executed ...

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 ...

But the second was the feast of St. Sebastian, and this Diocletian ... Sebastian lived under the Roman emperor Diocletian, whose eponymous persecution was perhaps the fiercest attempt ever at ...

Originally marking land borders under Roman Emperor Diocletian's tax reforms, the stone provides insight into ancient land ownership, local settlement patterns, and imperial administrative practices.

This remarkable find sheds light on the administrative practices of the Roman Empire during the reign of Emperor Diocletian, revealing details about the organization of territorial boundaries, land ...