There are many controverted points in connexion with the details of this story, and the use made of it by the Christian apologists, into which this is not the place to enter. Certain it is that this Danube legion got the title of _Fulminata_, at least for some time; even though the twelfth legion, to whom it properly belonged since the time of Augustus, were at this time at the Euphrates. It is certain, too, that everyone, pagan and Christian, regarded the incident as a miracle. Some attributed it to the prayers of the Emperor himself, and this view was commemorated in bas-reliefs of the Antonine column, erected after death to his memory and to be seen to this day. There one sees represented in the air the winged figure of an old man with streaming hair and beard, the god of rain, Jupiter Pluvius; while the Romans with helmets and shields receive the torrents of rain, and their enemies lie transfixed to the ground by the hail and lightning. Marcus Aurelius himself was represented in pictures with hands uplifted and praying, with strange forgetfulness of his barbarities against the Christians, “Jove to thee do I lift this hand, which hath never shed blood.” Others attributed this miracle to the Egyptian magician Arnouphis, who accompanied the army. That there were Christians “in Cæsar’s household” and round Marcus Aurelius is certain. That there were many Christians in this legion cannot reasonably be denied. But the great import of the event for Tertullian and other Christian apologists, before and after him, was based on a letter undoubtedly apocryphal, which Marcus Aurelius was supposed to have written to the Senate, acknowledging that he had been saved by Christian prayers and forbidding their further persecution.