| A | B |
|---|
| Tertullian | declared, "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the chruch". |
| Herod | King of Judea when Christ was born |
| Proselyte | convert |
| Messiah | "Annointed One" |
| John | Wrote the book of Revelation |
| Apostles | men appointed to carry out Christ's work on earth |
| Martyr | Greek word for witness |
| Infant | The church the holy spirit descended upon |
| Domitian | Roman emperor who proclaimed himself Lord and God |
| Christian | follower of Christ |
| catacomb | subterranean passage |
| A.D. 100 | All 27 books of the New Testament had been written |
| Perpetua | noblewoman who was martyred along with her faithful slave Felicitas |
| Gentile | Non Jew |
| Synagogue | Jewish place of worship |
| Nero | Under his reign Christians experienced the first major persecution by the Romans |
| Diocletian | Under this emperor was the 10th and greatest persecution |
| Paul | the apostle who was beheaded by Nero |
| Milan | The edict which made Christianity a legal religion and ended the persecution of Christians |
| Polycard | the bishop who was martyred in A.D. 155 |
