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  1. 2 days ago · Constantine I[ g ] (27 February c.272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.

  2. 4 days ago · The Cross of Christ was kept by the Church in Jerusalem, but was absconded by Chosroas, King of the Persians, in the year 614 A.D. after the Persian invasion of Syria and Palestine. In the year 629 A.D., the Cross was recovered and brought back to Jerusalem by Emperor Heraclius of Constantinople.

  3. 4 days ago · With Constantine’s conversion to Christianity, the Roman emperor conferred legality on the Christian movement in the Edict of Milan in 313 CE. He simultaneously promoted Christian iconography through elaborate mosaics and portraits. As God's representative on earth, Constantine I and subsequent emperors were portrayed with halos. This became ...

  4. 4 days ago · 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.

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  5. Sep 26, 2024 · The orthodox versions of the doctrine of Christ and the Trinity were finally established at the great ecumenical councils (principally Nicaea in 325; Constantinople in 381; and Chalcedon in 451). The key ideas of these Christological and Trinitarian debates and their conclusions were.

  6. 4 days ago · Emperor Constantine was the architect of the first Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, around 326 AD. By his order, the Bishop of Jerusalem, Macarius, began demolishing the ancient pagan temples, and by digging near Golgotha, the remains of Christ’s tomb were unearthed. It is said that the emperor’s mother, Helena, played a very important role ...

  7. 4 days ago · The feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross celebrates two historical events: the discovery of the True Cross by Saint Helena, the mother of the Emperor Constantine, in 320 under the temple of Venus in Jerusalem, and the dedication in 335 of the basilica and shrine built on Calvary by Constantine, which mark the site of the Crucifixion.