{"id":68930,"date":"2023-09-07T05:17:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T10:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=68930"},"modified":"2023-09-07T05:17:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T10:17:04","slug":"in-hoc-signo-vinces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/07\/in-hoc-signo-vinces\/","title":{"rendered":"In Hoc Signo Vinces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68928 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Christ3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Christ3.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Christ3-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Christ3-300x391.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/in-this-sign-thou-shalt-conquer\/\">Imperium Romanum<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>According to the message of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/eusebius-of-caesarea\/\">Eusebius of Caesarea<\/a>\u00a0before the\u00a0<b>Battle of the Mulvian Bridge<\/b>\u00a0(October 28, 312 CE)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/constantine-i-the-great\/\"><b>Constantine the Great<\/b><\/a>\u00a0he had a vision that allowed him to win.<span id=\"more-93271\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2>Around noon he was to see a luminous cross in the sky, and under it the inscription in Greek \u2013 \u201cin this, conquer\u201d. Better known in Latin translation\u00a0<em>In hoc signo vinces<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 \u201cIn this sign thou shalt conquer\u201d. 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>\u00a0banner) with the sign Chi Rho. Constantine was the first emperor to convert to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/christianization-of-ancient-rome\/\">Christianity<\/a>.<\/h2>\n<h2>He ended the policy of persecuting Christians and in 313 CE issued\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/edict-of-milan\/\">Edict of Milan<\/a>, proclaiming the freedom to profess this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/\">religion<\/a>.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Via: Imperium Romanum &nbsp; According to the message of\u00a0Eusebius of Caesarea\u00a0before the\u00a0Battle of the Mulvian Bridge\u00a0(October 28, 312 CE)\u00a0Constantine the Great\u00a0he had a vision that allowed him to win. Around noon he was to see a luminous cross in the sky, and under it the inscription in Greek \u2013 \u201cin this, conquer\u201d. Better known&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15672,4002,475,478,479,486,487,14620,14057,13855,491,492,493],"tags":[16431,15507,8798,16430,7666,489,490],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68932,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68930\/revisions\/68932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}