They were spreading their faith to Roman citizens. Families were being split apart, where some decided to become Christians and no longer follow these Roman practices. And so you have these various persecutions and these various purges, and they get more and more significant as you go into the second, and even to some degree in the third century, as Christians become more and more prominent and more and more in number. And remember, they have this missionary zeal, and it really becomes a significant purge under the reign of Diocletian. In previous videos, we talk about Diocletian. He's the one that famously split the empire between East and West, but he's also famous for his Purge of the Christians, the most extreme state-sponsored purges of Christians in the Roman Empire. But what's interesting is right after or shortly after those purges, we're talking a few decades here, the next emperor who would have reign over the entire Roman Empire would be Constantine.