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Constantine Triumphal Arch 313 AD Basilica of St. Peter ca. 324 ff. PDF

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release year2012
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Constantine Triumphal Arch 313 AD Basilica of St. Peter ca. 324 ff. Old St. Peter’s: reconstruction of nave, plus shrine, transept and apse. Tetrarchs from Constantinople, now in Venice Constantine defeated the rival Augustus, Maxentius, at the Pons Mulvius or Milvian Bridge north of Rome, at a place called Saxa Rubra (“Red rocks”), after seeing a vision (“In hoc signo vinces”) before the battle that he eventually associated with the protection of the Christian God. Maxentius’s Special Forces (Equites Singulares) were defeated, many drowned; the corps was abolished and their barracks given to the Bishop of Rome for the Lateran basilica.

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