Even within itself the Christian church was experiencing a plethora of schism’s it was during the First Council of Nicaea that Nicene Christianity was developed by the bishops at the time, this was an effort to unify Christians and in many ways it worked solidifying the doctrine of Christianity that the clergy could get behind and a message they believed their messiah had intended. However, in Rome, Christianity was a state religion and still fell to the authority of the emperor, there were a few minor conflicts between clergy and state officials on matters of authority though nothing extreme, that is until the Massacre at Thessalonica. The Massacre at Thessalonica is seen by many in the clergy at the time as the flash point between these sentiments of control over their church the event started with the stoning of state officials for the imprisonment of a charioteer who was very popular in Thessalonica by the populace. When word of the incident reached the emperor, Theodosius I, he was furious and sent his soldiers to the city with orders to treat it as a hostile city to be captured. As a result, the soldiers slaughtered seven thousand people, although Theodosius had quickly changed his mind on the matter his new order to stand down and return home would …show more content…
To the days of toleration for their religion within the Roman Empire and its cementation as the official religion of that empire. Then finally to its ability to survive and thrive after the fall of the Roman Empire it is that Christianity, relatively speaking, swiftly achieved what hundreds of other religions had tried for centuries and millenniums to do, which was to spread onto the tongues of peoples, throughout all nations and creeds, so to ferment in their minds and root within their