LEGION

THUNDERING. In the wars of the Romans, under the emperor Marcus Ant on in us, with the Marcomanni, the Roman troops being surrounded by the enemy, and in great distre from intense thirst, in the midst of a burning desert, a legion of Christians, who served in the army, imploring the merciful interposition of Christ , suddenly a storm with thunder and lightning came on, which refreshed the fainting Romans with its seasonable rain, while the lightning fell among the enemy, and destroyed many of them. The Christian legion to whose prayers this miraculous interposition was granted, was (according to the common account) thenceforth called The Thundering Legion .