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  1. 5 days ago · Her son Constantine dedicated this church on Sept. 13-14 in 335 A.D. Even today, the Stations of the Cross in Jerusalem, or the Via Dolorosa, end at this very spot. The Feast Day. The True Cross was considered a most valuable treasure of the Church and became a highly venerated object.

  2. 4 days ago · The Roman Emperor Constantine. Constantine was Emperor of Rome in the 4th Century. A unifier and strong personality, he is perhaps most well-known in Western circles for granting religious tolerance to Christianity. He was born Flavius Valerius Constantinus on Feb. 27, 280, in Naissus, Moesia (in what is now Serbia).

  3. 5 days ago · Hannah Brockhaus/CNA, August 18, 2022. On Aug. 18, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Helena. The mother of Constantine the Great, St. Helena, is believed to have restored many sites in the Holy Land, where she discovered the cross on which Christ died and other relics from his Passion, some of which she brought back with her to Rome.

  4. 2 days ago · Saint Helena, the mother of the Emperor Constantine, went on a mission to Jerusalem, around 324 AD, to preserve the relics of the Lord’s Passion. One of them was the True Cross, which made its way in Spain in the 16th century. In 1958, some tests were carried out to verify the relic’s authenticity.

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  6. 6 days ago · The more they uncover, the more they learn about the history and purpose of this practice. In the early 300s, Emperor Constantine moved to unite the church and empire, and the next emperor ...

  7. 4 days ago · ROME — Emperor Constantine, the 4th century ruler whose embrace of Christianity helped spread the faith throughout the Roman Empire, now has a reconstructed statue befitting his larger-than-life role in history. Rome authorities on Tuesday unveiled a massive, 42.6-foot replica of the statue Constantine commissioned for himself after 312 AD.

  8. 11 hours ago · This, of course, until Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity and ended the persecution in 312 CE. Follow us and access great exclusive content every day Getty Images