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St. Constantine the Great, founder of the Christian city of Constantinople, gave extensive grants of land and property to the Church. He undertook a long-sighted program of Christianization for the whole of the Roman Empire. While he was baptized a Christian only on his deathbed, Constantine nevertheless was a genuinely important figure in Christian history and was revered as a saint

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Emperor Constantine I the Great (c.272-337), Capitoline Museums, Rome /// Constantine is widely considered the first Christian emperor of the Roman Empire. His Edict of Tolerance or Toleration issued at Milan in 313 AD (edict was jointly the product of Constantine and Licinius, Augutus of the East) legalised Christianity throughout the Empire /// He was the son of Helena and Constantius Chlorus, Caesar of the West - a member of a four-man ruling body - the tetrarchy - created by…

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Saint Constantine, also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman Emperor who ruled from 306 to 337 AD. He is best known for being the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity and for issuing the Edict of Milan in 313 AD, which granted religious tolerance to Christians in the Roman Empire. Constantine played a significant role in the spread of Christianity and is considered a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church. He is often credited with helping to establish Christianity as the…

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The Cross could not be decently mentioned amongst Romans, who looked upon it as an unlucky omen, and as Cicero says, not to be named by a freeman. However, the Emperor Constantine attributed his victory in the Quintian fields, near the bridge Milvius, to the Cross of the Christians, the inscription of which he caused […]

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