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Milvian Bridge

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Milvian Bridge or Mulvian Bridge, Latin Pons Milvius or Pons Mulvius. It was built by Marcus Aemilius Scaurus in 109 B.C. over the Tiber near Rome as part of the Flaminian Way Flaminian Way (fləmĭn`ēən), one of the principal Roman roads , the greatest artery from Rome to Cisalpine Gaul.
..... Click the link for more information. . By defeating Maxentius here in A.D. 312, Constantine I became the unchallenged ruler of the West. It was here that Constantine saw the cross in the sky.
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Then, on the eve of the battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312, Constantine was told in a vision that the sign of the cross would give him victory.
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