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helena.rtf. St. Helena, Discoverer of the True Cross (250-330) by A.R. Birley. Helena, later known as Flavia Julia Helena Augusta, mother of Constantine the Great, was. credited after her death with having discovered the fragments of the Cross and the tomb in which. Jesus was buried at Golgotha. Helena was born at Drepanum in Bithynia, later ...
May 9, 2022 · Reign: Helena was the mother of Constantine I, who ruled as emperor from 306-337 CE. (Eutropius, Short History of the Roman Empire, 10.2 & 10.8) Marriages: Helena had a relationship with Constantius Chlorus, a future emperor of Rome, between 270 and 290 CE.
Flavia Julia Helena ( / ˈhɛlənə /; Greek: Ἑλένη, Helénē; c. AD 246/248–330), also known as Helena of Constantinople and in Christianity as Saint Helena, was an Augusta of the Roman Empire and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great. She was born in the lower classes traditionally in the Greek city of Drepanon, Bithynia, in Asia ...
Helena, Saint, the mother of Constantine the Great, b. about the middle of the third century, possibly in Drepanum (later known as Helenopolis) on the Nicomedian Gulf; d. about 330. She was of humble parentage, St. Ambrose, in his “Oratio de orbit Theodosii”, referring to her as a stabularia, inn-keeper.
Preview . Helena, the mother of Emperor Constantine, is one of the figures of antiquity whose historical significance is evident, but whose life story is difficult to grasp in its details. For much of her long life, she remained outside the purview of ancient sources, but at times, and especially in the last ten years of her life, she emerges onto the stage of i
HELENA, ST. Roman Empress, mother of Constantine I the Great;b. presumably in Drepanon (now Helenopolis), Bithynia, 255; d. Nicomedia, 330. According to St. ambrose she was a servant girl who became the concubine of Constantius Chlorus, was abandoned for political reasons, but was named Augusta by her son constantine i at the beginning of his reign (306).
Nov 17, 2022 · Helena, the mother of the first Christian emperor Constantine, is best known for the last two years of her life, when she traveled around the Eastern Mediterranean, and for something that, in all likelihood, she did not do: the discovery of the True Cross relic. Using a vast range of sources, from textual and epigraphical to visual, and an ...
