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Rehabilitating Nero?

I’m not surprised the day has arrived, that historians are now rehabilitating – so to speak – the reputation of the diabolical monstrosities of Emperor Nero, with a fawning display at the British Museum:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/14/how-nasty-was-nero-really

How bad was Nero, really? Well, it depends on whom you trust, and almost all the contemporary sources, secular and ecclesiastical, from Tacitus to Pope Saint Clement of Rome, recount the excesses of the emperor, delighting in evils that can scarcely be imagined. At the end of June, we celebrate the Protomartyrs of Rome, those who first gave their lives for the Faith during the reign of Nero (54 – 68 A.D.) – he had many of set alight like human Tiki torches, while he banqueted.

Praise the Lord

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