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June 13, 2023

This article is about the vexillum. For the ΧΡ symbol, ☧, see Chi Rho.

The labarum (Greek: λάβαρον) was a vexillum (military standard) that displayed the "Chi-Rho" symbol ☧, a christogram formed from the first two Greek letters of the word "Christ" (Greek: ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ, or Χριστός) – Chi (χ) and Rho (ρ).[2] It was first used by the Roman emperor Constantine the Great.[3]

The Labarum of Constantine I, reconstructed from the depiction on a follis minted c. 337. The three dots represent "medallions" which are said to have shown portraits of Constantine and his sons.[1]

Ancient sources draw an unambiguous distinction between the two terms "labarum" and "Chi-Rho", even though later usage sometimes regards the two as synonyms. The name labarum was applied both to the original standard used by Constantine the Great and to the many standards produced in imitation of it in the Late Antique world, and subsequently.

Etymology

Beyond its derivation from Latin labarum, the etymology of the word is unclear.[4] The Oxford English Dictionary offers no further derivation from within Latin.[5] Some derive it from Latin /labāre/ 'to totter, to waver' (in the sense of the "waving" of a flag in the breeze) or laureum [vexillum] ("laurel standard").[6] An origin as a loan into Latin from a Celtic language or Basque has also been postulated.[3] There is a traditional Basque symbol called the lauburu; though the name is only attested from the 19th century onwards[7] the motif occurs in engravings dating as early as the 2nd century AD.[8]

Vision of Constantine

 
A follis of Constantine (c. 337) showing a depiction of his labarum spearing a serpent on the reverse; the inscription reads SPES PVBLICA[9]

On the evening of October 27, 312 AD, with his army preparing for the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, the emperor Constantine I claimed to have had a vision[3] which led him to believe he was fighting under the protection of the Christian God.

Lactantius states that in the night before the battle Constantine was commanded in a dream to "delineate the heavenly sign on the shields of his soldiers". Obeying this command, "he marked on their shields the letter X, with a perpendicular line drawn through it and turned round thus at the top, being the cipher of Christ". Having had their shields marked in this fashion, Constantine's troops readied themselves for battle.[10]

From Eusebius, two accounts of a battle survive. The first, shorter one in the Ecclesiastical History leaves no doubt that God helped Constantine but does not mention any vision. In his later Life of Constantine, Eusebius gives a detailed account of a vision and stresses that he had heard the story from the emperor himself.[11] According to this version, Constantine with his army was marching somewhere (Eusebius does not specify the actual location of the event, but it clearly is not in the camp at Rome) when he looked up to the sun and saw a cross of light above it, and with it the Greek words Ἐν Τούτῳ Νίκα. The traditionally employed Latin translation of the Greek is in hoc signo vinces— literally "In this sign, you will conquer." However, a direct translation from the original Greek text of Eusebius into English gives the phrase "By this, conquer!"[12][13]

At first he was unsure of the meaning of the apparition, but the following night he had a dream in which Christ explained to him that he should use the sign against his enemies. Eusebius then continues to describe the labarum, the military standard used by Constantine in his later wars against Licinius, showing the Chi Rho sign.[14]

Those two accounts have been merged in popular notion into Constantine seeing the Chi-Rho sign on the evening before the battle. Both authors agree that the sign was not readily understandable as denoting Christ, which corresponds with the fact that there is no certain evidence of the use of the letters chi and rho as a Christian sign before Constantine. Its first appearance is on a Constantinian silver coin from c. 317, which proves that Constantine did use the sign at that time.[15] He made extensive use of the Chi-Rho and the labarum later in the conflict with Licinius.

The vision has been interpreted in a solar context (e.g., as a sun dog phenomenon), which would have been reshaped to fit with the Christian beliefs of the later Constantine.[16]

An alternate explanation of the intersecting celestial symbol has been advanced by George Latura, which claims that Plato's visible god in Timaeus is in fact the intersection of the Milky Way and the zodiacal light, a rare apparition important to pagan beliefs that Christian bishops reinvented as a Christian symbol.[17]

Eusebius' description of the labarum

 
Constantine's labarum, with a wreathed Chi Rho from an antique silver medal

"A Description of the Standard of the Cross, which the Romans now call the Labarum." "Now it was made in the following manner. A long spear, overlaid with gold, formed the figure of the cross by means of a transverse bar laid over it. On the top of the whole was fixed a wreath of gold and precious stones; and within this, the symbol of the Saviour’s name, two letters indicating the name of Christ by means of its initial characters, the letter P being intersected by X in its centre: and these letters the emperor was in the habit of wearing on his helmet at a later period. From the cross-bar of the spear was suspended a cloth, a royal piece, covered with a profuse embroidery of most brilliant precious stones; and which, being also richly interlaced with gold, presented an indescribable degree of beauty to the beholder. This banner was of a square form, and the upright staff, whose lower section was of great length, of the pious emperor and his children on its upper part, beneath the trophy of the cross, and immediately above the embroidered banner."

"The emperor constantly made use of this sign of salvation as a safeguard against every adverse and hostile power, and commanded that others similar to it should be carried at the head of all his armies."[18]

Iconographic career under Constantine

 
Coin of Vetranio, a soldier is holding two labara. Notably, they differ from the labarum of Constantine in having the Chi-Rho depicted on the cloth rather than above it, and in having their staves decorated with phalerae as were earlier Roman military unit standards.
 
The emperor Honorius holding a variant of the labarum - the Latin phrase on the cloth means "In the name of Christ [rendered by the Greek letters XPI] be ever victorious."

The labarum does not appear on any of several standards depicted on the Arch of Constantine, which was erected just three years after the battle. If Eusebius' oath-confirmed account of Constantine's vision and the role it played in his victory and conversion can be trusted, then a grand opportunity for the kind of political propaganda that the Arch was built to present was missed. Many historians have argued that in the early years after the battle, the Emperor had not yet decided to give clear public support to Christianity, whether from a lack of personal faith or because of fear of religious friction. The arch's inscription does say that the Emperor had saved the res publica INSTINCTV DIVINITATIS MENTIS MAGNITVDINE ("by greatness of mind and by instinct [or impulse] of divinity"). Continuing the iconography of his predecessors, Constantine's coinage at the time was inscribed with solar symbolism, interpreted as representing Sol Invictus (the Unconquered Sun), Helios, Apollo, or Mithras, but in 325 and thereafter the coinage ceases to be explicitly pagan, and Sol Invictus disappears. And although Eusebius' Historia Ecclesiae further reports that Constantine had a statue of himself "holding the sign of the Savior [the cross] in his right hand" erected after his victorious entry into Rome, there are no other reports to confirm such a monument.

Historians still dispute whether Constantine was the first Christian Emperor to support a peaceful transition to Christianity during his rule, or an undecided pagan believer until middle age, and also how strongly influenced he was in his political-religious decisions by his Christian mother St. Helena.

As for the labarum itself, there is little evidence for its use before 317.[19] In the course of Constantine's second war against Licinius in 324, the latter developed a superstitious dread of Constantine's standard. During the attack of Constantine's troops at the Battle of Adrianople the guard of the labarum standard were directed to move it to any part of the field where his soldiers seemed to be faltering. The appearance of this talismanic object appeared to embolden Constantine's troops and dismay those of Licinius.[20] At the final battle of the war, the Battle of Chrysopolis, Licinius, though prominently displaying the images of Rome's pagan pantheon on his own battle line, forbade his troops from actively attacking the labarum, or even looking at it directly.[21]

Constantine felt that both Licinius and Arius were agents of Satan, and associated them with the serpent described in the Book of Revelation (12:9).[22] Constantine represented Licinius as a snake on his coins.[23]

Eusebius stated that in addition to the singular labarum of Constantine, other similar standards (labara) were issued to the Roman army. This is confirmed by the two labara depicted being held by a soldier on a coin of Vetranio (illustrated) dating from 350.

Later usage

 
Modern ecclesiastical labara (Southern Germany).
 
The emperor Constantine IX Monomachos (centre panel of a Byzantine enamelled crown) holding a miniature labarum

A later Byzantine manuscript indicates that a jewelled labarum standard believed to have been that of Constantine was preserved for centuries, as an object of great veneration, in the imperial treasury at Constantinople.[24] The labarum, with minor variations in its form, was widely used by the Christian Roman emperors who followed Constantine.

A miniature version of the labarum became part of the imperial regalia of Byzantine rulers, who were often depicted carrying it in their right hands.

The term "labarum" can be generally applied to any ecclesiastical banner, such as those carried in religious processions.

"The Holy Lavaro" were a set of early national Greek flags, blessed by the Greek Orthodox Church. Under these banners the Greeks united throughout the Greek Revolution (1821), a war of liberation waged against the Ottoman Empire.

Labarum also gives its name (Labaro) to a suburb of Rome adjacent to Prima Porta, one of the sites where the 'Vision of Constantine' is placed by tradition.

See also

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Labarum.

Notes

  1. ^ A. Macgeorge, Flags, Glasgow (1881): The labarum of the emperors [...] frequently bore upon it a representation of the emperor, sometimes by himself and sometimes accompanied by the heads of members of his family."
  2. ^ In Unicode, the Chi-Rho symbol is encoded at U+2627 (☧), and for Coptic at U+2CE9 (⳩).
  3. ^ a b c Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Labarum" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 2.
  4. ^ H. Grégoire, "L'étymologie de 'Labarum'" Byzantion 4 (1929:477-82)
  5. ^ Hoad, T. F. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (repr. 1996) ISBN 0-19-283098-8
  6. ^ Kazhdan, p. 1167
  7. ^ "Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia". Euskaltzaindia. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
  8. ^ M. Camille Jullian in his preface to La tombe basque, according to Lauburu: La swástika rectilínea (Auñamendi Entziklopedia).
  9. ^ J. Arnold, The Footprints of Michael the Archangel (2013), p. 53.
  10. ^ Lactantius, On the Deaths of the Persecutors, chapter 44.5.
  11. ^ Harries, p. 110 - text and footnotes
  12. ^ Stephenson, p. 183. Quoting Eusebius, "About the time of the midday sun, when the sky was just turning, [Constantine] said he saw with his own eyes, up in the sky and resting over the sun, a cross-shaped trophy formed from light, and a text attached to it which said, 'By this conquer'" (Eusebius, Life of Constantine, trans. Averil Cameron and S. G. Hall (Oxford, 1999), I.28-32)
  13. ^ Harries, p. 109-111
  14. ^ Gerberding and Moran Cruz, 55; cf. Eusebius, Life of Constantine.
  15. ^ Smith, 104.
  16. ^ Weiss, P. (2003) The Vision of Constantine, Journal of Roman Archaeology, Vol. 16, pp. 240-245
  17. ^ Latura, G. "Plato’s Visible God: The Cosmic Soul Reflected in the Heavens." Religions 2012, 3, 880-886. http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/3/3/880
  18. ^ Eusebius Pamphilius: Church History, Life of Constantine, Oration in Praise of Constantine, Chapter XXXI.
  19. ^ Smith, JH, p. 104: "What little evidence exists suggests that in fact the labarum bearing the chi-rho symbol was not used before 317, when Crispus became Caesar..."
  20. ^ Odahl, p. 178
  21. ^ Odahl, p.180
  22. ^ Constantine and the Christian empire by Charles Matson Odahl 2004 ISBN 0-415-17485-6 page 315
  23. ^ A Companion to Roman Religion edited by Jörg Rüpke 2011 ISBN 1-4443-3924-9 page 159
  24. ^ Lieu and Montserrat p. 118. From a Byzantine life of Constantine (BHG 364) written in the mid to late ninth century.

Bibliography

  • Grabar, Christian Iconography: A Study of its Origins (Princeton University Press) 1968:165ff
  • Grant, Michael (1993), The Emperor Constantine, London. ISBN 0-7538-0528-6
  • R. Grosse, "Labarum", Realencyclopädie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft vol. 12, pt 1(Stuttgart) 1924:240-42.
  • H. Grégoire, "L'étymologie de 'Labarum'" Byzantion 4 (1929:477-82).
  • J. Harries (2012) Imperial Rome AD 284 to 363, Ch. 5: The Victory of Constantine, AD 311–37, Edinburgh University Press.
  • Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991), Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, p. 1167, ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6
  • A. Lipinsky, "Labarum" Lexikon der christlichen Ikonographie 3 (Rome:1970)
  • Lieu, S.N.C and Montserrat, D. (Ed.s) (1996), From Constantine to Julian, London. ISBN 0-415-09336-8
  • Odahl, C.M., (2004) Constantine and the Christian Empire, Routledge 2004. ISBN 0-415-17485-6
  • Smith, J.H., (1971) Constantine the Great, Hamilton, ISBN 0-684-12391-6
  • Stephenson, P., (2009) Constantine: Unconquered Emperor, Christian Victor, Quercus, London.

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This article is about the vexillum For the XR symbol see Chi Rho The labarum Greek labaron was a vexillum military standard that displayed the Chi Rho symbol a christogram formed from the first two Greek letters of the word Christ Greek XRISTOS or Xristos Chi x and Rho r 2 It was first used by the Roman emperor Constantine the Great 3 The Labarum of Constantine I reconstructed from the depiction on a follis minted c 337 The three dots represent medallions which are said to have shown portraits of Constantine and his sons 1 Ancient sources draw an unambiguous distinction between the two terms labarum and Chi Rho even though later usage sometimes regards the two as synonyms The name labarum was applied both to the original standard used by Constantine the Great and to the many standards produced in imitation of it in the Late Antique world and subsequently Contents 1 Etymology 2 Vision of Constantine 3 Eusebius description of the labarum 4 Iconographic career under Constantine 5 Later usage 6 See also 7 Notes 8 BibliographyEtymology EditBeyond its derivation from Latin labarum the etymology of the word is unclear 4 The Oxford English Dictionary offers no further derivation from within Latin 5 Some derive it from Latin labare to totter to waver in the sense of the waving of a flag in the breeze or laureum vexillum laurel standard 6 An origin as a loan into Latin from a Celtic language or Basque has also been postulated 3 There is a traditional Basque symbol called the lauburu though the name is only attested from the 19th century onwards 7 the motif occurs in engravings dating as early as the 2nd century AD 8 Vision of Constantine Edit A follis of Constantine c 337 showing a depiction of his labarum spearing a serpent on the reverse the inscription reads SPES PVBLICA 9 On the evening of October 27 312 AD with his army preparing for the Battle of the Milvian Bridge the emperor Constantine I claimed to have had a vision 3 which led him to believe he was fighting under the protection of the Christian God Lactantius states that in the night before the battle Constantine was commanded in a dream to delineate the heavenly sign on the shields of his soldiers Obeying this command he marked on their shields the letter X with a perpendicular line drawn through it and turned round thus at the top being the cipher of Christ Having had their shields marked in this fashion Constantine s troops readied themselves for battle 10 From Eusebius two accounts of a battle survive The first shorter one in the Ecclesiastical History leaves no doubt that God helped Constantine but does not mention any vision In his later Life of Constantine Eusebius gives a detailed account of a vision and stresses that he had heard the story from the emperor himself 11 According to this version Constantine with his army was marching somewhere Eusebius does not specify the actual location of the event but it clearly is not in the camp at Rome when he looked up to the sun and saw a cross of light above it and with it the Greek words Ἐn Toytῳ Nika The traditionally employed Latin translation of the Greek is in hoc signo vinces literally In this sign you will conquer However a direct translation from the original Greek text of Eusebius into English gives the phrase By this conquer 12 13 At first he was unsure of the meaning of the apparition but the following night he had a dream in which Christ explained to him that he should use the sign against his enemies Eusebius then continues to describe the labarum the military standard used by Constantine in his later wars against Licinius showing the Chi Rho sign 14 Those two accounts have been merged in popular notion into Constantine seeing the Chi Rho sign on the evening before the battle Both authors agree that the sign was not readily understandable as denoting Christ which corresponds with the fact that there is no certain evidence of the use of the letters chi and rho as a Christian sign before Constantine Its first appearance is on a Constantinian silver coin from c 317 which proves that Constantine did use the sign at that time 15 He made extensive use of the Chi Rho and the labarum later in the conflict with Licinius The vision has been interpreted in a solar context e g as a sun dog phenomenon which would have been reshaped to fit with the Christian beliefs of the later Constantine 16 An alternate explanation of the intersecting celestial symbol has been advanced by George Latura which claims that Plato s visible god in Timaeus is in fact the intersection of the Milky Way and the zodiacal light a rare apparition important to pagan beliefs that Christian bishops reinvented as a Christian symbol 17 Eusebius description of the labarum Edit Constantine s labarum with a wreathed Chi Rho from an antique silver medal A Description of the Standard of the Cross which the Romans now call the Labarum Now it was made in the following manner A long spear overlaid with gold formed the figure of the cross by means of a transverse bar laid over it On the top of the whole was fixed a wreath of gold and precious stones and within this the symbol of the Saviour s name two letters indicating the name of Christ by means of its initial characters the letter P being intersected by X in its centre and these letters the emperor was in the habit of wearing on his helmet at a later period From the cross bar of the spear was suspended a cloth a royal piece covered with a profuse embroidery of most brilliant precious stones and which being also richly interlaced with gold presented an indescribable degree of beauty to the beholder This banner was of a square form and the upright staff whose lower section was of great length of the pious emperor and his children on its upper part beneath the trophy of the cross and immediately above the embroidered banner The emperor constantly made use of this sign of salvation as a safeguard against every adverse and hostile power and commanded that others similar to it should be carried at the head of all his armies 18 Iconographic career under Constantine Edit Coin of Vetranio a soldier is holding two labara Notably they differ from the labarum of Constantine in having the Chi Rho depicted on the cloth rather than above it and in having their staves decorated with phalerae as were earlier Roman military unit standards The emperor Honorius holding a variant of the labarum the Latin phrase on the cloth means In the name of Christ rendered by the Greek letters XPI be ever victorious The labarum does not appear on any of several standards depicted on the Arch of Constantine which was erected just three years after the battle If Eusebius oath confirmed account of Constantine s vision and the role it played in his victory and conversion can be trusted then a grand opportunity for the kind of political propaganda that the Arch was built to present was missed Many historians have argued that in the early years after the battle the Emperor had not yet decided to give clear public support to Christianity whether from a lack of personal faith or because of fear of religious friction The arch s inscription does say that the Emperor had saved the res publica INSTINCTV DIVINITATIS MENTIS MAGNITVDINE by greatness of mind and by instinct or impulse of divinity Continuing the iconography of his predecessors Constantine s coinage at the time was inscribed with solar symbolism interpreted as representing Sol Invictus the Unconquered Sun Helios Apollo or Mithras but in 325 and thereafter the coinage ceases to be explicitly pagan and Sol Invictus disappears And although Eusebius Historia Ecclesiae further reports that Constantine had a statue of himself holding the sign of the Savior the cross in his right hand erected after his victorious entry into Rome there are no other reports to confirm such a monument Historians still dispute whether Constantine was the first Christian Emperor to support a peaceful transition to Christianity during his rule or an undecided pagan believer until middle age and also how strongly influenced he was in his political religious decisions by his Christian mother St Helena As for the labarum itself there is little evidence for its use before 317 19 In the course of Constantine s second war against Licinius in 324 the latter developed a superstitious dread of Constantine s standard During the attack of Constantine s troops at the Battle of Adrianople the guard of the labarum standard were directed to move it to any part of the field where his soldiers seemed to be faltering The appearance of this talismanic object appeared to embolden Constantine s troops and dismay those of Licinius 20 At the final battle of the war the Battle of Chrysopolis Licinius though prominently displaying the images of Rome s pagan pantheon on his own battle line forbade his troops from actively attacking the labarum or even looking at it directly 21 Constantine felt that both Licinius and Arius were agents of Satan and associated them with the serpent described in the Book of Revelation 12 9 22 Constantine represented Licinius as a snake on his coins 23 Eusebius stated that in addition to the singular labarum of Constantine other similar standards labara were issued to the Roman army This is confirmed by the two labara depicted being held by a soldier on a coin of Vetranio illustrated dating from 350 Later usage Edit Modern ecclesiastical labara Southern Germany The emperor Constantine IX Monomachos centre panel of a Byzantine enamelled crown holding a miniature labarum A later Byzantine manuscript indicates that a jewelled labarum standard believed to have been that of Constantine was preserved for centuries as an object of great veneration in the imperial treasury at Constantinople 24 The labarum with minor variations in its form was widely used by the Christian Roman emperors who followed Constantine A miniature version of the labarum became part of the imperial regalia of Byzantine rulers who were often depicted carrying it in their right hands The term labarum can be generally applied to any ecclesiastical banner such as those carried in religious processions The Holy Lavaro were a set of early national Greek flags blessed by the Greek Orthodox Church Under these banners the Greeks united throughout the Greek Revolution 1821 a war of liberation waged against the Ottoman Empire Labarum also gives its name Labaro to a suburb of Rome adjacent to Prima Porta one of the sites where the Vision of Constantine is placed by tradition See also Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Labarum Christianity portalGonfalone Christian symbolism Constantine I and Christianity Cantabrian Labarum Arch of Constantine triumphal arch to the victory at Milvian Bridge Christianity Constantinian shift Khorugv Michaelion XI monogram Biertan DonariumNotes Edit A Macgeorge Flags Glasgow 1881 The labarum of the emperors frequently bore upon it a representation of the emperor sometimes by himself and sometimes accompanied by the heads of members of his family In Unicode the Chi Rho symbol is encoded at U 2627 and for Coptic at U 2CE9 a b c Chisholm Hugh ed 1911 Labarum Encyclopaedia Britannica Vol 16 11th ed Cambridge University Press p 2 H Gregoire L etymologie de Labarum Byzantion 4 1929 477 82 Hoad T F The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology repr 1996 ISBN 0 19 283098 8 Kazhdan p 1167 Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia Euskaltzaindia Retrieved 12 January 2013 M Camille Jullian in his preface to La tombe basque according to Lauburu La swastika rectilinea Aunamendi Entziklopedia J Arnold The Footprints of Michael the Archangel 2013 p 53 Lactantius On the Deaths of the Persecutors chapter 44 5 Harries p 110 text and footnotes Stephenson p 183 Quoting Eusebius About the time of the midday sun when the sky was just turning Constantine said he saw with his own eyes up in the sky and resting over the sun a cross shaped trophy formed from light and a text attached to it which said By this conquer Eusebius Life of Constantine trans Averil Cameron and S G Hall Oxford 1999 I 28 32 Harries p 109 111 Gerberding and Moran Cruz 55 cf Eusebius Life of Constantine Smith 104 Weiss P 2003 The Vision of Constantine Journal of Roman Archaeology Vol 16 pp 240 245 Latura G Plato s Visible God The Cosmic Soul Reflected in the Heavens Religions 2012 3 880 886 http www mdpi com 2077 1444 3 3 880 Eusebius Pamphilius Church History Life of Constantine Oration in Praise of Constantine Chapter XXXI Smith JH p 104 What little evidence exists suggests that in fact the labarum bearing the chi rho symbol was not used before 317 when Crispus became Caesar Odahl p 178 Odahl p 180 Constantine and the Christian empire by Charles Matson Odahl 2004 ISBN 0 415 17485 6 page 315 A Companion to Roman Religion edited by Jorg Rupke 2011 ISBN 1 4443 3924 9 page 159 Lieu and Montserrat p 118 From a Byzantine life of Constantine BHG 364 written in the mid to late ninth century Bibliography EditGrabar Christian Iconography A Study of its Origins Princeton University Press 1968 165ff Grant Michael 1993 The Emperor Constantine London ISBN 0 7538 0528 6 R Grosse Labarum Realencyclopadie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft vol 12 pt 1 Stuttgart 1924 240 42 H Gregoire L etymologie de Labarum Byzantion 4 1929 477 82 J Harries 2012 Imperial Rome AD 284 to 363 Ch 5 The Victory of Constantine AD 311 37 Edinburgh University Press Kazhdan Alexander ed 1991 Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium Oxford University Press p 1167 ISBN 978 0 19 504652 6 A Lipinsky Labarum Lexikon der christlichen Ikonographie 3 Rome 1970 Lieu S N C and Montserrat D Ed s 1996 From Constantine to Julian London ISBN 0 415 09336 8 Odahl C M 2004 Constantine and the Christian Empire Routledge 2004 ISBN 0 415 17485 6 Smith J H 1971 Constantine the Great Hamilton ISBN 0 684 12391 6 Stephenson P 2009 Constantine Unconquered Emperor Christian Victor Quercus London Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Labarum amp 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