To assure Christians that we are not breaking faith with the One True God as we celebrate our religious holidays.
Historians such as Tacitus, Tertullian, Suetonius and many others recorded how Christianity faced unprecedented persecution after the death of Christ and the rise of Emperor Nero to power. All of the original apostles of Christ faced trials and were put to death either by the Roman Empire or local authority figures – but they all died for their faith.
