# Later encyclopedia lives print a Neronian execution as received tradition, not as a death certificate

Date: 1886

## The fact

Catholic Encyclopedia tradition and Britannica print that Paul was executed in Rome under Nero as received tradition. The dated public carrier is that modern life-cluster. Low-medium confidence on the exact year; high that the tradition is a later public story of state killing of a preacher.

## Context

Acts ends without the sword. Do not upgrade Eusebian-later tradition to a procurator’s daybook.

[Paul the Apostle](/people/paul-the-apostle) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official Bible-society, Vatican, or library pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Britannica — Saint Paul the Apostle (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Paul-the-Apostle; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

A printed Neronian-death tradition is not an ISO 64 CE death certificate.

A printed Neronian-death tradition is not an ISO 64 CE death certificate.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Paul the Apostle: https://factrail.ai/people/paul-the-apostle

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11567b.htm
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Paul-the-Apostle

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/pa-nero-death-as-tradition