How Christianity Almost Vanished in 303 AD

In this 11-minute video from the highly popular channel Told In Stone, classical historian Garrett Ryan explores the fiercest persecution the early Church ever faced — from the emperor Diocletian — which put to the test Jesus’s promise that the “gates of Hell” would never prevail. Ryan shows how close the persecution actually came to succeeding, why it finally failed, and how the blood of the martyrs soon became the seeds of the Church.