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When was Nero's persecution?
64 AD
Was Nero the worst persecutor?
Nero was not the worst persecutor. The worse persecution of Christians, the Great Persecution, occurred some 240 years later under Diocletian.
Who killed Peter the apostle?
Tradition says Peter died in the emperor Nero's persecution of 67-68AD; Nero himself died in 68AD.
What was the persecution of the early christian church?
The persecution of early christians happened first during the time of Emperor Nero,Emperor Hadrian,Decius and the last greatest persecution was the time of Emperor Diocletian.
Is it true that the early christian met in the catacombs during the time of roman persecution and the rule of Nero?
Yes.
Who persecuted the pagans?
The Christians were in charge of pagan persecution. Nero started it way back in the beginning of the church.
Who started the first persecution of the roman emipre?
There were not any prosecution of the Roman Empire. An empire would not persecute itself. There were persecutions of the Christians. The first such persecution occurred under the emperor Nero.
Which roman empror tortured and killed christans?
The emperor Nero was said to have persecuted the Christans in 64. There were executions in the Decian persecution by the emperor Decius of 250 and in the persecution by the emperor Valerian from 257 to 259. The worse persecution was under the emperor Diocletian, who unleashed the Great Persecution of 305-313.
Is Nero in hell?
According to most society, he would be. He has been dubbed the "Anti-Christ" and was negligent of the caring of Rome. He was also a hefty executor. And as it is that Christians felt the brunt of Nero's persecution, by all means, he resides in the Christian Hell.
Who was the Roman emperor that began the persecution of christians?
It is generally agreed that there was no organised, general, centrally directed persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire before the edict of Emperor Decius in 249. This remained in effect until 251 CE. The "great persecution" of Christians was initiated by Emperor Diocletian in 303 CE. It lasted until 305 in the West, but continued until 311 in the East.
Why did Emperor Nero kill Saint Peter?
Nero ordered the execution of Saint Peter. He used the excuse that Christians were responsible for the fire that burned a large part of the city of Rome. He needed to hide his own blame for causing the fire.
Why did Nero start a campaign against Christians?
Nero did not "start a campaign against the Christians." In the aftermath of a devastating fire in Rome in 64 AD, rumor had it that Nero had started the fire. To shift suspicion away from himself, he began arresting Christians. Some of those arrested informed against others and, for a few weeks in the city of Rome itself, Christians were tortured in particularly barbaric ways. The historian Tacitus, in his Annals 15.44, describes the persecution and says that the ferocity of it soon created a backlash of sympathy for the Christians. This persecution was short-lived and did not spread beyond the city of Rome.
