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Dec 11, 2012 · Helena. Paperback – December 11, 2012. Evelyn Waugh's personal favorite of his novels and "a superlatively well done book" (Chicago Tribune) set in the age of Emperor Constantine. Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftain who is thrown into marriage with the man who will one day become the Roman emperor Constantius.
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1,689 ratings218 reviews. Evelyn Waugh, author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller Brideshead Revisited and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, considered Helena to be perhaps his finest novel. Based on the life of St. Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine and finder of the true cross, this spiritual adventure ...
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Flavia Julia Helena [a] ( / ˈhɛlənə /; Greek: Ἑλένη, Helénē; c. AD 246/248–330), also known as Helena of Constantinople and in Christianity as Saint Helena, [b] was an Augusta of the Roman Empire and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great. She was born in the lower classes [2] traditionally in the Greek city of Drepanon, Bithynia ...
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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 ...
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1487. The Malleus Maleficarum, [a] usually translated as the Hammer of Witches, [3] [b] is the best known treatise purporting to be about witchcraft. [6] [7] It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer (under his Latinized name Henricus Institor) and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486.
Jan 1, 2008 · Sixteen of his books were made into films. Pope John XXIII conferred on him the title of Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great.His works include Lay Siege to Heaven, Set All Afire, Citadel of God, The Spear, Joyful Beggar, The Quiet Light, and more.
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