Broken Bread & Lives Poured Out by
Mike Aquilina
In July of A.D. 64, during the tenth year of Nero’s reign, a great fire
consumed much of the city of Rome. The fire raged out of control for seven days and
then it started again, mysteriously, a day later. Many in Rome knew that Nero
had been eager to do some urban redevelopment. He had a plan that included an
opulent golden palace for himself. The problem was that so many buildings were
standing in his way many of them teeming wooden tenements housing Rome’s
poor and working class.