Persecutions of Christians by Romans

Although Roman persecutions for Christians continued for about three centuries and never stopped during that era, the historians used to assign it into ten great persecutions happened by ten Roman Emperors, will be mentioned later. Many scholars connected these ten persecutions with the ten plagues that happened to Egyptians in the Old Testament and the ten horns of the beast mentioned in the Holy Book of Revelation.

1. Nero
2. Domitian
3. Trajan
4. Marcus Aurelius
5. Septimius Severus
6. Caius Julius Verus Maximinus Thrax
7. Decius
8. Valerian
9. Aurelian
10. Diocletian