{"id":93271,"date":"2021-06-29T13:36:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T11:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=93271"},"modified":"2021-06-29T13:36:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T11:36:32","slug":"in-this-sign-thou-shalt-conquer","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/in-this-sign-thou-shalt-conquer\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In this sign thou shalt conquer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the message of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/eusebius-of-caesarea\/\">Eusebius of Caesarea<\/a> before the <b>Battle of the Mulvian Bridge<\/b> (October 28, 312 CE) <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/konstantyn-wielki\/\"><b>Constantine the Great<\/b><\/a> he had a vision that allowed him to win. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Around noon he was to see a luminous cross in the sky, and under it the inscription in Greek &#8211; &#8220;in this, conquer&#8221;. Better known in Latin translation <em>In hoc signo vinces<\/em> &#8211; &#8220;In this sign thou shalt conquer&#8221;. The next night in a dream, Christ commanded him to use the sign of the cross against his enemies. Eusebius then describes a labarum (<a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/life-of-a-roman-legionary\/\">legionary<\/a> banner) with the sign Chi Rho. Constantine was the first emperor to convert to <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/christianization-of-ancient-rome\/\">Christianity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He ended the policy of persecuting Christians and in 313 CE issued <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/artykul\/edykt-mediolanski\/\">Edict of Milan<\/a>, proclaiming the freedom to profess this <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/\">religion<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36014,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[83],"class_list":["post-93271","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-ancient-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/93271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/93271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=93271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}