In our final episode covering church history, we explore the 1st and 2nd century persecution and martyrdom. If you'd like to see them, here are the emperors that Devin talks about with the dates of their persecutions:

• Nero (r. 54-68) 
• Domitian (r. 81-96)
• Trajan (r. 98-117)
• Hadrian (r. 117–138)
• Antoninus Pius (r. 138-61)
• Marcus Aurelius (r. 161–180)
• Septimius Severus (r. 193-211)
• Maximinus Thrax (r. 235-38)
• Decius (r. 249-51)
• Valerian (r. 253-60)
• Aurelian (r. 270-75)
• Diocletian (r. 284-305) and Maximian (r. 286-305)