The historian Tacitus says that to take suspicion off himself, Nero blamed the fire on the Christians, who were then “torn by dogs and perished ” and“ doomed to the flames and burnt, to serve as a nightly illumination, when daylight had expired.
इस सताहट के दौरान, पौलूस जिसने येरूशलेम से रोम तक और शायद स्पेन तक प्रचार किया था, दूसरी बार कैद हुआ ।