Saint Peter was martyred in about 64AD during the reign of which Roman Emperor?
Saint Peter wrote his Epistle to the Romans about AD 57, he greets some fifty people in Rome by name, but not Peter whom he knew. There is also no mention of Peter in Rome later during Paul's two-year stay there in , about AD 60–62. Some church historians consider Peter and Paul to have been martyred under the reign of Nero, around AD 65 such as after the Great Fire of Rome. Presently, most Catholic scholars, and many scholars in general, hold the view that Peter was martyred in Rome under Nero. There is no obvious biblical evidence that Peter was
Germanicus of Smyrna killed by being thrown to the lions for the Romans entertainment. He was the disciple of Polycarp bishop of Smyrna. Germanicus was martyred a few months before his respected Polycarp. Germanicus of Smyrna Saint Germanicus was a youth who was arrested and martyred for his faith in Smyrna during the reign of the Roman Emperor Antoninus. As Germanicus stood in the arena, facing a wild beast, the Roman proconsul pleaded with him that in view of his youth he should deny his faith to obtain a pardon. But the young man refused to apostatize, and willingly embraced martyrdom. Germanicus was