Also called the Diocletianic Era, the unusual practice of reckoning time from the start of the reign of the bitterly anti-Christian emperor Diocletian. This is in recognition of the severe persecution of the Church under Diocletian and his colleagues in rule, Maximian and Galerius, although the formal universal oppression did not commence until 303, the so-called Great Oppression. The custom is followed mainly by Coptic and Abyssinian Christians.
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