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Flavia Julia Helena (Ancient Greek: Ἑλένη Helénē; AD c. c. 250 – c. 329), or Saint Helena was Constantine the Great's mother and a Roman empress (Latin: augusta). Helena was a wife or concubine of Constantius I before he became a Roman emperor.[1] In Christianity, Helena is a saint because Christian historians during Late Antiquity ...
Helena was still living in the year 326, when Constantine ordered the execution of his son Crispus. When, according to Socrates' account (Church History I.17), the emperor in 327 improved Drepanum, his mother's native town, and decreed that it should be called Helenopolis, it is probable that the latter returned from Palestine to her son who was then residing in the Orient.
Emperor Constantine I appointed his mother Helen as Augusta, and gave her unlimited access to the imperial treasury in order to locate the relics of Judeo-Christian tradition. In 325, Helena was in charge of such a journey to Jerusalem by her son who had recently declared Rome as a Christian city.
St. Helena was the mother of Emperor Constantine the Great and an Empress of the Roman Empire. Very little is known about Helena's early life, but it is believed she is from Drepanum (later known as Helenopolis) in Asia Minor and born into a poor family and lower class in the Roman culture of the day. St. Ambrose described Helena as a "good ...
AE Nummus 325-326 HELENA, MOTHER OF CONSTANTINE THE GREAT: ANTIOCHIA (RIC R4) VF-. 65.19 US$ Tax included. + 8.69 US$ shipping. Delivery: 7 - 10 days. View item. M&M. Roman. AE nummus 324-328/30AD Helena, Augusta AE nummus Pax standing left VF+.
Flavia Julia Helena (; Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἑλένη, Helénē; AD 246/248– c. 330), also known as Helena of Constantinople and Saint Helena, was an Augusta of the Roman Empire and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great.
Ancient Jewish History: Constantine and Helena - Judea Under Christian Rule. The Council of Nicea in 325 CE marked a bad day for the Jews under Roman rule. Constantine, emperor and honorary bishop (though there's some disagreement as to whether he ever actually became a Christian), declared Christianity to be legal in Rome.
