Where christian's killed at the roman coliseum?

Answer 1

Christians were only existing from about 5BC on, because until that time Jesus had not been born, thus the following of Christ could not have been possible.

Christians emerged strongest in the Eastern half of the empire, who were fairly distant from the Roman gods and politics of Rome. Christianity was strongest in Greece, Judea (Present Day Israel and Palestine) Egypt and Antioch (Modern Day Turkey)

Most of the Eastern and African Provinces tolerated Christianity as they had done with Jews for many centuries, but in Rome, Christianity was a cult and banned.

People who practiced it were doing so secretly and if they were caught there were extcruciating punishments. The most typical was torture to root out any organized relgious group, the next was burning (Early Christians did not believe in cremation), the most traditional was crusifixion. (it had nothing to do with Jesus' execution because the punishment had been used for centuries) Another form of execution was to be thrown into a colloseum or THE Colloseum and put to death via gladitorial combat, lions, tigers, or stampede. It was also customary to drag the corpse, and parade it around the streets. The most grousome site must have been in Rome when hundreds of Christians were executed within a week and hung on crosses on the famous Apian Way Road, the corpses were left to rot there for months many livedfor many days in excruciating pain as their lungs punctured against their rib cage and birds peckec their eyes and skin. One account said that a particular person lasted for seven days on the cross.

Wealthy nobels or soldiers in the Roman Army caught practicing Christianity were also usually executed, but less savagely. Many were simply beheaded or stabbed in the chest or back. Many of the apostles and saints were also executed privately rather then publically.

Answer 2

Based largely on contemporary Christain sources, Edward Gibbon (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) estimates that less than 2000 Christians were killed in the Great Persecution of 303-311. The two previous official purges of 249-51 and 257 appear to have been somewhat less traumatic for the Christians, who were then fewer in number.

It is likely that the total number of Christians killed for their religion before the time of Constantine would exceed three thousand, but this number is low compared to all those who died after the time of Constantine.
Gibbon says that the first Christians confessed that the greatest part of those magistrates:who exercised in the provinces the authority of the emperor or of the senate, behaved like men of polished manners and liberal education, who respected the rules of justice, and who were conversant with the precepts of philosophy. They frequently declined the odious task of persecution, dismissed the charge with contempt, or suggested to the accused Christian some legal evasion by which he might elude the severity of the laws. Gibbon tells us that the Christian historians depicted all kinds of savagery by torturers, executioners and wild animals against the Christians, but says that the inconsistencies of this testimony make it so dubious that a modern scholar could scarcely accept it at face value.

Answer 3

Yes, they were killed with animals in the Colosseum - usually lions.

Answer 4

Christians were executed in the Colosseum.

Answer 5

probably not but it could happen