A Town in Phoenicia Made a City, and Idolatry Abolished Elsewhere

A similar change took place in several other cities. One example is the town in Phoenicia that took its name from the emperor: its people burned their countless idols and took up the principles of the saving faith in their place. Many, too, in the other provinces, in both the cities and the countryside, became willing seekers after the saving knowledge of God. They destroyed as worthless the images of every kind they had once held most sacred. Of their own accord they pulled down the lofty temples and shrines that housed them, and, renouncing their former opinions, or rather errors, they began and finished entirely new churches. But it is not so much my task to give a detailed account of the actions of this pious prince as it is the task of those who were privileged to be in his company at all times. So I will be content to record briefly such facts as have come to my own personal knowledge, before I go on to the last days of his life.