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| Tango01 | 17 Feb 2018 12:21 p.m. PST |
"The early centuries of the church had seen intense periods of bloody persecution. While some church fathers saw martyrdom as a powerful witness (‘martyr' means ‘witness'), and the ‘blood of the martyrs' as ‘the seed of the church', it was natural to pray for an end to the persecution. Many longed for a era of peace, the millennium, allowing the gospel to be spread without opposition.
According to Eusebius, the first church historian, the battle of Milvian Bridge, in which Constantine defeated and killed his rival to the title of Roman emperor on 28 October 312, was an occasion of divine intervention in history.
The son of the western emperor Constantius (one of four co-emperors), Constantine was proclaimed as Augustus by his own troops in York when his father died in July 306. But this was not universally recognised across the empire. After several years of jockeying among the four contenders for supreme power, Constantine moved on Rome with his army of 100,000 soldiers to confront his brother-in-law, Maxentius…"
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