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1. Battle Of The Milvian Bridge

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   The Celestial Event and Divine Intervention
   A central element of the historical memory of the battle involves divine favor bestowed upon Constantine. Lactantius, writing closer to the event, suggests Constantine was instructed in a dream to affix a heavenly sign to his soldiers' shields. However, later accounts, most notably that of Eusebius of Caesarea, vividly describe a vision of a luminous cross—often conflated with the Chi-Rho ($\chi\rho$)—in the midday sky, accompanied by the Greek inscription $\text{EN TΟΥΤΩΙ ΝΙΚΑ}$ (*En toutō…