What became legal in 313 A.D. thanks to the Edict of Milan?
In 313 Constantine gave his half-sister Constantia in marriage to Licinius, and by the Edict of Milan (issued in his own name and that of Licinius) granted toleration to Christianity throughout the Empire. Licinius had been Augustus of the East since 311; Constantine held the West. http://hubpages.com/hub/constantine Emperor Constantine, a life long worshiper of the Roman sun god Sol Invictus, created a Universal (“Catholic”) religion that he hoped all the subjects of Rome would accept and rally around whether they were Pagan, Jewish, Nazarene (followers of Y’Shua) or what have you and made this religion the only legal one within the empire. Though it is correct with the Edict of Milan in 313 a.d. that Christianity became a legal religion of the Roman Empire, the church that came out of it was not some created Roman Catholic Church. Ignatius of Antioch in 110 a.d. called the church “Catholic”. Justin Martyr in 155 a.d. us
