How Did Emperors Punish Claudius

From A.D. 30 to A.D. 311, a period in which 54 emperors ruled the Empire, only about a couple took the trouble to harass the Christians. Claudius? The reason why i have a question mark next to claudius is because he only expelled them from Rome because the Jews were continually making disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus. so it really all depends on you perception of “persecution” (41–54)

Nero was the Sixth Roman Emperor during the years of rome. His reign spanned for about five years. His mother, Agrippina, managed to convince her husband, Claudius Who we last talked about, to adopt her son Nero and put him, ahead of Claudius’ own son, first in line for the throne. Maternal concern not satisfied, she then murdered Claudius, and Nero

Unfortunately for Christians, this concern was combined with suspicious preoccupation with state security and a tendency to interfere in internal affairs of ostensibly self-governing cities. In one letter he tells how to deal with Christians “They are not to be hunted out. [Although] any who are accused and convicted should be punished, with the proviso that if a man says he is not a Christian and makes it obvious by his actual conduct—namely, by worshiping our gods—then, however suspect he may have been with regard to the past, he should gain pardon from his repentance.”

A persecution followed, especially in North Africa and Egypt. The North African theologian Tertullian penned his famous apologetic works during this period, but to no avail. Among others, the dramatic martyrdom of Perpetua and her servant Felicitas occurred under Severus. Clement of Alexandria also perished, as did the father of Origen. (Tradition holds that Origen, in his youthful ardor, wished to share his father’s fate, but his resourceful mother prevented his leaving the house by hiding his clothes. )But the persecution ended at Severus’s death, and except for a brief bout under Maximinus (235–238), Christians were free from persecution for some 50