In the 61^st year
¶The blessed martyrs Felix and Constantia suffered for Christ at Nocero.¹
In the 62^nd year
¶St Front was ordained by the blessed Peter [to be] bishop at the city of Périgueux, coming² with a priest, Gregory,³ who was brought back from death to the pathway of fellowship by the apostle’s staff: he [St Front] converted a great crowd of the people [there] to Christ. About this time, the blessed apostle Paul, proceeding to Spain for the purpose of preaching,⁴ left Paul the disciple ordained as bishop of Narbonne. After filling the task of preaching energetically, he rested there, crowned illustrious by miracles.
In the 63^rd year
¶At about this time, the blessed apostle Paul ordained his disciple St Trophimus, [who] he mentioned in a letter, writing to Timothy;⁵ the first bishop of the city of Arles. As Pope Zozimus wrote, ‘from his spring, all Gaul received streams of faith’.⁶ Also, blessed Crescens, disciple of the same, undertaking the passage to Gaul, converted many to the faith of Christ by the word of [his] preaching.
In the 64^th year
In the 65^th year the evangelist Mark passed away to the Lord. ¶The blessed martyrs Processus and Martinian, baptised by the blessed apostle Peter, are crowned with martyrdom under Nero, killed in the end by the sword after they had suffered bruising of the mouth, the rack, thongs, cudgels, fire, [and] whips.⁷
In the 66^th year
In the 67^th year
¶About this time the blessed apostles Peter and Paul were held for nine months in the Mamertine prison. There the blessed Peter baptised 47 martyrs, who—all for the confession of the faith—passed away to Christ, devoured by the Nero-like sword.
In the 68^th year
¶Albinus succeeds Festus to the magistracy of Judea, and Florus Albinus. Because of his wantonness and greed, …
In the 69^th year … and other disgraceful deeds, the Jews rebelled against the Romans. Vespasian, Nero’s military commander, who was sent against them, took a great many cities of Judea.
In the 70^th year Peter and Paul suffered [martyrdom] under Nero. Nero himself, however, died the same year, when he had ruled for 13 years, and Vespasian,⁸ commander of his [Nero’s] own military forces, succeeded him: Vespasian—sent by him—was at that time ▬ fighting the Jews. He, however, was made emperor by the army: entrusting the war to his son Titus, he returned to Rome via Alexandria. Linus succeeded Peter in the papacy.
In the 71^st year Titus, son of Vespasian,⁹ with Jerusalem destroyed, razed the temple to the ground, 1,089 years after it was first built; and in destroying Jerusalem he killed eleven times a hundred thousand Jews, [and] publicly sold a hundred thousand. This war was accomplished in four years: two while Nero was living, and two more afterwards.
In the 72^nd year ¶The blessed Apollinaris, who had been ordained bishop by the blessed apostle Peter at Rome and sent to Ravenna; after he endured different and numerous wounds for the faith of Christ, he at last, however, in the midst of his undergoing these tortures one after another, completed a glorious martyrdom under Vespasian Caesar.
In the 73^rd year
In the 74^th year ¶Vespasian among his other great deeds—besides in his private life—clashed with the enemy three times in Germany and then twice in Britain when sent by Claudius: he added to the Roman empire two exceptionally powerful peoples, twenty towns, and also the Isle of Wight near Britain. Colossus¹⁰ is erected, having a height of 107 feet.