This memorial is in honor of the nameless followers of Christ brutally killed by the mad Emperor Nero as scapegoats  for the fire in Rome. The Pagan historian Tacitus and St. Clement of Rome  tell of a night of horror (August 15, 64 A.D. ) when in the imperial parks, Christians were put into animal skins and hunted, were brutally attacked, and were made into living torches  to light the road for Nero’s chariot. Learn more about this brutal crime to the early Christians here.