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5 days ago · Constantine the Great was one of the most important figures of Byzantium and Christianity, yet there is a dark chapter in the emperor’s reign that historians cannot fathom. The execution of his oldest son Crispus and his wife Empress Fausta is a tragic episode in the history of the Eastern Roman Empire that is full of glorious moments.
5 days ago · Saint Helena, the mother of Emperor Constantine, is credited by Saint Ambrose of Milan with the recovery of perhaps Christendom’s most sacred relic: The True Cross. Whether or not she actually was the one to find it was secondary to Ambrose’s primary objective — to join imperial protection to (and subject it to) the authority of the Church, and to avoid a repeat of the Church’s ...
St. Constantine the Great, Equal to the Apostles, First Christian Emperor of Rome, builder of Constantinople and founder the Byzantine Empire. He is a military victor, effective ruler and glorified saint.
5 days ago · Steven Runciman’s classic Fall of Constantinople lays great stress on the heroic last stand of Emperor Constantine XI on the Land Walls in 1453 but that emphasis can be misleading for two reasons.
3 days ago · Roman Empire, the ancient empire, centered on the city of Rome, that was established in 27 BCE following the demise of the Roman Republic and continuing to the final eclipse of the empire in the West in the 5th century CE. Learn more about the Roman Empire in this article.
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1 day ago · Some scholars argue that using the Greek letters “XP” instead of the Latin “CHR” was intended to invoke Emperor Constantine’s vision at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312 C.E. His victory allowed him to end the official persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire.
5 days ago · Why did Constantine the Great Execute his Son and Wife? Philip Chrysopoulos - May 30, 2024. Constantine the Great was one of the most important figures of Byzantium and Christianity, yet there is a dark chapter in the emperor's reign that historians cannot fathom. The execution of his oldest son Crispus and his wife Empress Fausta...
