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Period: 60 to 88
Nero
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64
Great Fire of Rome; Nero launches persecution of Christians
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Period: 69 to 79
Vespasian
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70
destruction of Jerusalem by Titus
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81
Persecution under Domitian 81-96
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Period: 81 to 96
Domitian
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87
St. Clement I is pope; restored the sacrament of confirmation according to the rite of St. Peter; martyred in 97