About IHSV

Who Are We?

"In Hoc Signo Vinces", a privately owned and operated Traditional Catholic website, was established on June 24th, 1996, with the end goal of helping:

• Traditional Catholics who wish to find encouragement in the present crisis
• Modernist 'catholics' who are looking to return to the ancient Faith
• Non-Catholics who are trying to find the Truths of Roman Catholicism
• And anyone else who is willing to come to a knowledge of the Truth and be saved

We do this by making articles and documents of a sound theological and doctrinal nature available to the World Wide Web.

IHSV takes as its motto the venerable words of St. Augustine: “In essentials unity, in nonessentials liberty, and in all things Charity”. We encourage all Catholics to take this motto to heart, and to live by it, especially when dealing with one another.

Our Name

In Hoc Signo Vinces is Latin for "In This Sign (the Cross) You Shall Conquer." It was taken from a vision of the Emperor Constantine in about the year 310. At the Battle of Milvian Bridge, Constantine's army was fiercely outnumbered by the contending emperor Maxentius. On the evening before the battle, Constantine saw a Cross emblazoned on the horizon with the words "In Hoc Signo Crucis Vinces" surrounding it. He immediately set to work placing the cross on the shields of everyone in his army. The next day Constantine swept the enemy into the Tiber River, and entered victoriously into Rome! It was this incident that blazed the trail for the Edict of Milan in 313, which ended the persecutions against the Catholics, and gave them the legal right to worship publicly.