At Saxa Rubra (Red Rocks), seven or eight miles northeast of Rome, Constantine had his famous vision. According to historian Lactantius, writing one or two years after the event, it consisted of a private dream telling Constantine to mark his soldiers with the chi-rho, the first two letters of Christ's name in Greek. Armed with a new certainty of divine favor, he routed Maxentius.
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At Saxa Rubra (Red Rocks), seven or eight miles northeast of Rome, Constantine had his famous vision. According to historian Lactantius, writing one or two years after the event, it consisted of a private dream telling Constantine to mark his soldiers with the chi-rho, the first two letters of Christ's name in Greek. Armed with a new certainty of divine favor, he routed Maxentius.
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