Ruins of the Roman imperial palace in Milan, the city where Constantine and Licinius met in 313Image: Lorenzo Fratti · CC BY-SA 3.0Licinius publishes the promise of freedom agreed at Milan
Early in 313 the two most powerful men in the Roman world met at Milan. Constantine, master of the West, and Licinius, who was about to fight for control of the East, agreed a policy that would change the history of Europe: Christians, and everyone else, were to be free to follow whatever religion they chose, and churches and property seized from Christians during the persecutions were to be handed back. There was no single decree signed in Milan. What survives are letters Licinius sent to his provincial governors once he had beaten his rival Maximinus Daia that spring. The writer Lactantius, who lived in Nicomedia, records that Licinius entered the city and on the Ides of June, 13 June 313, had the letter to the governor of Bithynia made public there. It brought the last great persecution of the Christians to an end and made theirs a lawful faith across the empire.
Source: Britannica: Edict of Milan ↗
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