This is Venetian artist Palma Vecchio’s depiction of Emperor Constantine I and his mother, Saint Helen, who greatly influenced his religious beliefs. Vecchio lived from 1480-1528. (Courtesy Photo) The ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 2—Three hundred and 13 years after Jesus Christ had walked the earth, Constantine the Great, the emperor of Rome, made ...
Constantine ends not converting, technically, to Christianity, but becoming a patron of one particular branch of the church. It happens to be the branch of the church that has the Old Testament as ...
Constantine’s rise to power began within the turbulent political system of the Tetrarchy created by Emperor Diocletian. After the death of his father Constantius Chlorus in 306, Constantine was ...
Constantine’s act of “calling himself a Christian and pouring in that flood of wealth and power on the church,” John Wesley charged in 1787, “was productive of more evil to the church than all the ten ...
Under several emperors of Rome like Diocletian, Christians were sorely persecuted. Diocletian died in 316 A.D when Constantine was in the military and contending for the emperorship. His opponent was ...
New York: The Overlook Press, 2010. Pp. xxvi, 358. Illus., maps, gloss., abbrev., biblio., index. $30.00. ISBN: 1590203240 It is difficult to write a biography of ...
Three hundred and 13 years after Jesus Christ had walked the earth, Constantine the Great, the emperor of Rome, made history with his establishment of religious freedom throughout his empire. The Rev.