Theodosius' Prayers - The Second Turn of Fortune

Theodosius spent the evening in prayer, attempting to gin up some sort of miracle that would salvage his chances. Later chronicles might play this up, and report that God decided to answer Theodosius' prayers. There are no guarantees that it actually happened the way that later historians claim that it happened. It is entirely possible that the whole incident is just a figment of some overzealous church historians' imagination.