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Why might an emperor of Rome had of made Christianity Rome's official religion?

Constantine the Great was preparing for a major battle and he saw a cross in the sky. He ordered that all of his soldiers paint the cross onto their shields and he crushed his enemy. He then made Christianity the main religion


When Constantine became the first christian emperor what incident led to his conversation to Christianity?

While he was marching against his rival in the Imperial Civil War, he saw a vision of the Chi (X) Rho (P) transposed over each other (☧).This was a Christian symbol which was formed from the first two Greek letters of the word for Christ, and symbolised the crucifixion of Christ. He ordered all his soldiers to paint the superimposed Chi Rho on their shields before engaging the enemy [His mother was a devoted Christian; so he was predisposed to accept Christianity]. His actual conversion, however did not occur--if, in fact, it did occur--until he was on his deathbed. There are two traditions about events which preceded the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312 AD in which Constantine the Great took the city of Rome from an usurper whose troops were twice as numerous. According to Lactantius, he was visited by a dream the night before which advised him "to mark the heavenly sign of God on the shields of his soldiers...by means of a slanted letter X with the top of its head bent round…" According to Eusebius, while marching at midday, Constantine " saw with his own eyes in the heavens a trophy of the cross arising from the light of the sun, carrying the message, with this sign, you will conquer". The following night he had a dream, in which Christ appeared with the same heavenly sign, and told him to make a standard, the labarum, for his army in that form. The labrarium a military standard with had the "Chi-Rho" symbol on it. This did not constitute a conversion and might have been a ploy to galvanise the Christians among his troops gain the support of the many Christians in the city of Rome. . Although after the battle Constantine ignored the sacrifices to the Roman gods which customarily followed a victory, he was careful to try to appease the Christian and pagan factions. Constantine continued to observe Roman religion. He was keen on celebrating Apollo and the sun-god. He retained the title of Pontifex Maximus (the head of Roman state religion) throughout his life. The triumphal Arch of Constantine which celebrated his victory at the battle of the Milvian Bridge and which was dedicated in 315 AD bore pagan symbols and no Christian symbols. In 321 he instructed Christians and non-Christians to observe the venerable day of the sun, the day of the cult of sun-worship. Roman coins had pagan gods on them for 8 years after the battle. Even after that, Christian symbols appeared only as Constantine's personal attributes. The Chi Rho was between his hands or on his labarum but never on the coins themselves. It is not certain whether Constantine converted to Christianity. It was said that he was lying dying in the city of Nicomedia he spoke of his hope to be baptised in the River Jordan, where Christ was said to have been baptized, requested the baptism straight away. According to Eusebius, the bishops performed the sacred ceremonies according to custom" in Nicomedia. However, it is not certain whether these words actually meant baptism or whether these events actually occurred.


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It was when the emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. He had actually been a pagan before. In a battle, he saw in the sky the Greek symbol for Christ. Then, he heard Christ say, "In My name, conquer." Right after that, he told all his soldiers to paint the symbol on their shields, and they won the battle. Constantine became a Christian, declared it the official religion of the Roman empire, and called for churches to be built all over the empire.


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oddly enough Rome banned christianity prosecuted hundreds if not thousands of christians, until oneday on the eve of a battle a general by the name of Constantine saw a crossin the sky and woke up his soldiers and told them to paint a cross on their shields, and then when they charged into battle they stood up in the battlefield victorious. later the capital of the now Holy Roman Empire became Constantinople.


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There never really was, 'paint' it was all dyes that they used, for example, to obtain a red dye, beetles would be crushed to make a red pulp that would be thinned down, stained into a shirt, etc. and then dried For the matter of shields, the dye was left un-thinned and painted on as what we would call 'paint' today