06 Works, Today, June 30th, is First Martyrs’ day, their story in Paintings #181

The First Martyrs of the Church of Rome were Christians martyred in the city of Rome during Nero’s persecution in 64. They are celebrated in the Roman Catholic Church as an optional memorial on 30 June.

There were early Christians in Rome within a dozen or so years after the death of Jesus, though they were not the converts of Paul. He had not yet visited them at the time he wrote his Epistle to the Romans in 57–58 AD. Paul wrote to a community of both Jews and Gentiles…

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