It was fought between the Legions of St Constantine (Feast Day 21 May), not yet a Christian, and those of Maxentius. It was at this battle that Constantine saw in the sky a vision sent by God as a promise of victory if the sign of the Chi Rho, the first two letters of Christ's name in Greek, was painted on the soldiers' shields.
The emblem was duly painted on the Legionaries' shields and Constantine won the battle setting his path on the road to converting to Christianity (and eventually becoming a Saint) and the Christianisation of the Empire under Theodosius I who declared Nicene Christianity the religion of the State and extended Roman citizenship to all right-believing Christians of the Empire in the Edict of Thessalonica on 27 February 380.
Therefore, because of the outcome of this battle we can say, along with St Paul (Acts of the Apostles 16:37), Civis Roman sum!
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