Rome's suppression of Christianity has strengthened rather than weakened the movement, for public opinion condemns the government's violence and applauds the passive resistance of the martyrs.

Early in 251, the persecution of Christians ceases.

(Decius has provided the model for a more thorough persecution of Christians that will begin in 303 under Diocletian's reign.)

Novatian, the first Roman theologian who uses the Latin language, writes De Trinitate, an orthodox interpretation of early church doctrine on the Trinity.

Cornelius, after reigning as Bishop of Rome for two years under Trebonianus Gallus, is exiled by the emperor to Centuricellae (Civitavecchia), where he dies in June 253.