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YogSoggoth ago

(5) The following businesses are associated: june21.eu, Standard Hotel, Prada, Hotel Grand Amour (Paris), Gucci, Birkenstock, Milk Studio, Foundacion Prada, many more. The Italian word more similar to it is "preda", that means "prey" or "booty" (i.e. something hunted for), but is used also as a last name. Therefore possibly "Prada" derives from "Preda". These surnames are typically Lombard, as there are more "Prada" named people and more "Preda" named people in Lombardy than in the rest of Italy. The Roman elite fled there. Edict of Milan. The Edict is popularly thought to concern only Christianity, and even to make Christianity the official religion of the Empire (which recognition did not actually occur until the Edict of Thessalonica in 380). Indeed, the Edict expressly grants religious liberty not only to Christians, who had been the object of special persecution, but goes even further and grants liberty to all religions:

When you see that this has been granted to [Christians] by us, your Worship will know that we have also conceded to other religions the right of open and free observance of their worship for the sake of the peace of our times, that each one may have the free opportunity to worship as he pleases; this regulation is made that we may not seem to detract from any dignity of any religion.

— "Edict of Milan", Lactantius, On the Deaths of the Persecutors (De Mortibus Persecutorum), ch. 48. opera, ed. 0. F. Fritzsche, II, p 288 sq. (Bibl Patr. Ecc. Lat. XI).[9] Since Licinius composed the Edict with the intent of publishing it in the east[citation needed] upon his hoped-for victory over Maximinus, it expresses the religious policy accepted by Licinius, a pagan, rather than that of Constantine[citation needed], who was already a Christian. Constantine's own policy went beyond merely tolerating Christianity: he tolerated paganism and other religions, but he actively promoted Christianity. Just in case anyone was confused.

YogSoggoth ago

Constantine the great was probably not called that by everyone at the time. Lombardy, Prada, pizzagate.