03-01-2007, 04:58 PM
Quote:What's the earliest occurrance of the chi-rho as a definate Christian symbol? Constantine?
I believe Lactantius is the earliest known account of Constantine's Milvian Bridge experience, he mentions it in Chp. 44 of The Deaths of the Persecutors. Eusebius also chronicles the event in Chp. 27 of The Life of Constantine, though he wrote somewhat later and with an obvious Christian bias.
K.E.McElligott
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"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know." - M.Tullius Cicero