When did the wholesale persecution of Christians begin?

A) The wholesale persecution of Christians began in 303 A.D., when Diocletian passed an Edict to persecute Christians and destroy their churches and scriptures.
B) Marcus Aurelius began the persecution of the Christians near the end of his reign as a method of maintaining order in Rome.
C) Constantine began the persecutions when he took office 305 A.D. as a means of controlling an unruly population in the East.
D) It began under the Emperor Nero in 64 A.D. as after dinner entertainment.
E) The wholesale persecution of Christians never occurred, it was always a limited process based regionally not nationally.


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