1 mar 313 ano - ** Edict of Tolerance (313)

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Constantine's first substantive act as a Christian or as someone who favored the Christian church was the Edict of Tolerance. At this point, Christianity was legalized.
The Edict of Tolerance or Edict of Toleration issued at Milan in 313 was jointly the product of Constantine and Licinius now the two last guys standing. The Augustus of the East, Licinius , and Constantine, the Augustus of the West.


Licinius was a pagan, but he was willing to go along with toleration. At this point, Christianity was legalized. But in the west, Constantine came to favor the Church and do more than merely accept it as legal. For example, he returned property confiscated in the Diocletianic persecutions. He exempted the Church from state taxation, an incredible gift, and allowed church officials, bishops and others, to use the imperial communications system, the so-called post system whereby they could get fresh horses to go from one place to another, greatly speeding up their journeys and making the journeys, in effect, chargeable to the state.

Constantine left the pagan and ceremonial center of Rome alone, for the time being at least, and built two great basilicas on its outskirts. One, Saint Peter's. The St. Peter's that stands today is, of course, a product of the Renaissance and the Baroque. But the old church that was destroyed in the sixteenth century was that of Constantine. And he also built the Lateran Basilica. Both of these outside the walls of Rome.

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