Marcus Aurelius
Letter to the Senate on the rain miracle
Traditional attribution
Letter to the Senate on the rain miracle
Epistula Marci ad senatum
A short text in which "Marcus Aurelius" tells the Senate that, surrounded by the enemy and without water, his Christian soldiers prayed and rain came, and therefore orders that no one be prosecuted for being a Christian. It contradicts what is known of the reign's policy and the pagan depiction of the episode on the Column of Marcus Aurelius.
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Authorship note
Spurious. A letter appended in some manuscripts to the end of Justin's First Apology, in which the emperor supposedly credits the victory to the prayers of Christian soldiers. Scholars regard it as a later Christian forgery developing the tradition of the "thundering legion" reported by Tertullian and Eusebius.
Editions and translations
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English
Marcus Aurelius
Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. I
The Conscious LibraryAnte-Nicene Fathers, vol. I
Christian Literature Publishing, 1885
Apéndice a la Primera apología de Justino. Dominio público.
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Sources
- Justino Mártir, Primera apología, apéndice con la «Carta de Marco Aurelio al Senado». Trad. inglesa en Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. I, ed. A. Roberts y J. Donaldson. Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing, 1885.
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