Today in the year 1449, the last emperor of the Romans was crowned in the small town of Mystras in Greece, far away from the ...

AIGIALEIA, GREECE—ArtNet News reports that a portrait of the Byzantine emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos was discovered during restoration work at the Holy Monastery of Pammegiston Taxiarchon in ...

In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine received a vision from God: if he embraced Christianity he would win. His ...

Emperor Constantine (ca A.D. 280– 337) reigned over a major transition in the Roman Empire—and much more. His acceptance of Christianity and his establishment of an eastern capital city, which would ...

Centuries of church schisms show that if there’s a doctrine to be fought over, there’s a goodchanceChristianswillfightaboutit. That repeated splintering is what ...

Norm Zeisloft ©Stars and StripesHeidelberg, West Germany, January, 1963: Crown Prince Constantine, left, heir to the throne of Greece, discusses the flight plan for an upcoming helicopter trip to ...

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