Acts of Other Apostles

The Washington Post | April 12, 1998| | Copyright

THE BARBARIAN CONVERSION

From Paganism to Christianity

By Richard Fletcher Henry Holt. 562 pp. $35 Reviewed by Michael Dirda, a writer and editor for Book World. In 312 A.D. Constantine, fighting desperately to preserve his new position as Roman emperor, "saw a vision of the cross superimposed on the sun above the words In hoc signo vince, `Conquer in this sign.' " It is a famous story. The troops, as Richard Fletcher continues, "were ordered to mark their shields with the sign of the cross. In the battle of the Milvian Bridge, just outside Rome, Constantine was victorious against all odds. ...

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