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X Churchfrom annals fifteen forty four. Here's what Tacitus said. He says Nero, that was the emperor at the time, fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite punishments on a class hated for their abominations called Christians by the populace. Christus, Christus, that's the Latin for Christ. From whom the name has had its origin suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hand of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilate. And a most mischievous superstition thus checked for the moment again broke out not only Judea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome.