52. The advocates for the vision are unable to produce a
single testimony from the Fathers of the fourth and fifth
centuries, who in their voluminous writings repeatedly
celebrate the triumph of the church and of Constantine. As
these venerable men had not any dislike to a miracle, we may
suspect (and the suspicion is confirmcd by the ignorance of
Jerom) that they were all unacquainted with the Life of
Constantine by Eusebius. This tract was recovered by the
diligence of those who translated or continued his
Ecclesiastical History, and who have represented in various
colours the vision of the cross.