I, Caesar
by Lee Burnett, Germantown
Academy, PA
Constantine
272-337 A.D.
In 306 AD Constantine assumed his father's position as one of four emperors in Diocletian's continuing tetrarchy. After a series of battles with rivals, he was sole emperor of the Empire in 323. Perhaps his most famous battle was against his rival Maxentius at the Milvian bridge near Rome in 312; there, legend has it he saw the sign of the cross in the sky and had it painted on his soldiers' shields. After he won the battle, he converted to Christianity. It was under him that Christianity became the principle religion of the Empire.
Student Research: Mike
Ancient Source: Eusebius' Life of Constantine
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