Following Emporer Neros command, 'Let the Christians be exterminated' ... they the Christians were made the subjects of sport they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.
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