SITES OF Christian Persecution
According to varying sources, It is estimated that 50,000-70,000 Christians were persecuted between the Great Fire of Rome
(AD 64) and the Edict of Milan (AD 313), but where did these persecutions take place [1]? Were they localised or empire-wide?
Look below, read some martyrdom stories, and see the extent of these persecutions.
FOOTNOTES
1. Foxe 1881: 19-50; Hertling 1944: 127-128.
2. Rome = Ign. Rom. 2-5; Mart. Ign. 5-6; Euseb. Hist. eccl. 3.36.3; RM 10.17.1.
3. Nicomedia = Euseb. Hist. eccl. 8.5-6; RM 4.24.4.
4. Carthage = Pass. Perp. 14-21; RM 3.7.1.
5. Alexandria = Euseb. Hist. eccl. 6.41.7; RM 2.9.1.
6. Antioch = Euseb. Hist. eccl. 6.39; RM 1.24.4.
7. Verulamium = HE Bede. 1.7; RM 6.22.4.
8. Lugdunum = Euseb. Hist. eccl. 5.1.17-56; RM 6.2.2.
9. Tarraco = RM 1.21.3.
10. Agaunum = RM 9.22.2.
11. Mediolanum = RM 5.8.1.
12. Thessalonica = RM 4.9.3.
13. Smyrna = MPol. 5-16; Euseb. Hist. eccl. 4.15; RM 2.23.1.
14. Caesarea Maritima = Euseb. Hist. eccl. 4.15; RM 3.3.1.