About 325 it is believed that Constantine's mother, St. Helena, built a small church on the Mount in the 4th century, calling it the Church of St. Cyrus and St. John, later on enlarged and called the Church of the Holy Wisdom.

In Christianity it is believed that during the time of the Byzantine Empire, near the spot where the Dome was later constructed was where Constantine's mother built a small church, calling it the Church of St. Cyrus and St. John, later on enlarged and called the Church of the Holy Wisdom.

These cities, and the province of Helenopontus in the Diocese of Pontus, were probably both named after Constantine's mother.

The story of Minervina is quite similar to that of Constantine's mother Helena.

Because of this unpopular concession, Patriarch Nicholas was driven out of the regency by Constantine's mother Zoe.

In it he describes how Saint Helena, Constantine's aged mother, had the temple destroyed and the Sepulchre uncovered, whereupon three crosses and the titulus from Jesus's crucifixion were uncovered as well.

* 326: Constantine's mother Saint Helena visits Jerusalem and orders the destruction of Hadrian's temple to Venus which had been built on Calvary.

But her statue endured during the revolutionary reign of Sulla and became a model for future Roman women culminating with the portrait said to be of Helena, Emperor Constantine's mother four hundred years later ; however, the base of Cornelia's statue was altered during the conservative attempts of later Roman reformers in which the base of her statue that gave reference to her famous sons was filed away and replaced with the inscription as “ daughter of Africanus ” rather than “ mother of the Grachii .” 6

Shortly after Simeon's visit to Constantinople, Constantine's mother Zoe returned to the palace on the insistence of the young emperor and immediately proceeded to eliminate the regents.

The marriage was annulled by Constantine's mother Zoe once she had returned to the court.

Constantine's mother, Helena, made a pilgrimage to the city and claimed to have recovered the cross of Christ.

Another of Eudokia and Constantine's sons, Andronikos Doukas, was now made co-emperor by Romanos IV, although he had been excluded from power by his own father, mother, and brothers.

Following the victory of Christian emperor Constantine in the Civil Wars of the Tetrarchy ( 306 – 324 ), the Christianization of the Roman Empire began, and in 326, Constantine's mother Saint Helena visited Jerusalem and began the construction of churches and shrines.

After a plot in the Byzantine court in 914 however, the new regent Zoe, Constantine's mother, rejected the marriage.

Helena, Constantine's mother, finds the cross in Jerusalem.

Constantine's mother Theodora Nemanjić was a half-sister of Dušan.

Around this on the central panel are enamel standing figures of Constantine on the left and Saint Helena ( Constantine's mother who originally found the True Cross ) on the right, below busts of archangels.

The style was used in bronze by Bernini for his spectacular St. Peter's baldachin, actually a ciborium ( which displaced Constantine's columns ), and thereafter became very popular with Baroque and Rococo church architects, above all in Latin America, where they were very often used, especially on a small scale, as they are easy to produce in wood by turning on a lathe ( hence also the style's popularity for spindles on furniture and stairs ).

The Kingdom of Alba, a name which first appears in Constantine's lifetime, was in northern Great Britain.

Constantine's grandfather Kenneth I of Scotland ( Cináed mac Ailpín, died 858 ) was the first of the family recorded as a king, but as king of the Picts.

King Æthelstan was successful in securing Constantine's submission in 927 and 934, but the two again fought when Constantine, allied with the Strathclyde Britons and the Viking king of Dublin, invaded Æthelstan's kingdom in 937, only to be defeated at the great battle of Brunanburh.

Constantine's reign of 43 years, exceeded in Scotland only by that of King William the Lion before the Union of the Crowns in 1603, is believed to have played a defining part in the gaelicisation of Pictland, in which his patronage of the Irish Céli Dé monastic reformers was a significant factor.

In Ireland, Flann Sinna, married to Constantine's aunt Máel Muire, was dominant.

Áed, Constantine's father, succeeded Constantine's uncle and namesake Constantine I in 876 but was killed in 878.

Constantine's surviving son Indulf, probably baptised in 927, would have been too young to be a serious candidate for the kingship in the early 940s, and the obvious heir was Constantine's nephew, Malcolm I.

The last of Constantine's certain descendants to be king in Alba was a great-grandson, Constantine III ( Constantín mac Cuiléin ).

Constantine's church was built as two connected churches over the two different holy sites, including a great basilica ( the Martyrium visited by Egeria in the 380s ), an enclosed colonnaded atrium ( the Triportico ) with the traditional site of Golgotha in one corner, and a rotunda, called the Anastasis (" Resurrection "), which contained the remains of a rock-cut room that Helena and Macarius identified as the burial site of Jesus.

The rockface at the west end of the building was cut away, although it is unclear how much remained in Constantine's time, as archaeological investigation has revealed that the temple of Aphrodite reached far into the current rotunda area, and the temple enclosure would therefore have reached even further to the west.

Constantine's rule, however, validated Diocletian's achievements and the autocratic principle he represented: the borders remained secure, in spite of Constantine's large expenditure of forces during his civil wars ; the bureaucratic transformation of Roman government was completed ; and Constantine took Diocletian's court ceremonies and made them even more extravagant.

A letter Eusebius is supposed to have written to Constantine's daughter Constanza, refusing to fulfill her request for images of Christ, was quoted in the decrees ( now lost ) of the Iconoclast Council of Hieria in 754, and later quoted in part in the rebuttal of the Hieria decrees in the Second Council of Nicaea of 787, now the only source from which some of the text is known.

A shrine was built on the site of his death following Emperor Constantine's adoption of Christianity as the religion of the Roman Empire.

Under the soldier one reads SIRM indicating the coin was minted in Sirmium, the home of Constantine's family.

All Julian could do was sit it out in Naissus, the city of Constantine's birth, waiting for news and writing letters to various cities in Greece justifying his actions ( of which only the letter to the Athenians has survived in its entirety ).

For example, he reversed Constantine's declaration that Majuma, the port of Gaza, was a separate city.

This was consistent with Constantine's personal position towards Jewry, which has been described by the primitive Christianity movement as being anti-Semitic, antinomian, and persecution of seventh-day observers.

In the Middle Ages, the Torre delle Milizie and the convent of St. Peter and Domenic were built, and above Constantine's building was erected the Palazzo Rospigliosi ; the two famous colossal marble statues of the " Horse Tamers ", generally identified as the Dioscuri with horses, which now are in the Piazza Quirinale, were originally in this Palazzo.

The removal of Claudius from the conspiracy is due to his later role as the progenitor of the house of Constantine, a fiction of Constantine's time, and may serve to guarantee that the original version from which these two accounts spring was current prior to the reign of Constantine.

But whereas Constantine's claim was recognized by Galerius, ruler of the Eastern provinces and the senior emperor in the empire, Maxentius was treated as a usurper.

The alliance between the Scots and the Norse was cemented by the marriage of Constantine's daughter to Olaf Guthfrithson, the Viking King of Dublin, and in 937 they joined with Owain of Strathclyde to invade England.

Constantine's father later had to divorce her for political reasons, specifically, to marry Flavia Maximiana Theodora, the daughter of Maximian, in order to secure his alliance with his new father-in-law.

At the time of Constantine's death in January 1055, the emperor had another mistress, a certain " Alan princess ", probably Irene, daughter of the Georgian Bagratid prince Demetrius.

Locking hands in a circle of power, and using the psychic powers of Constantine's drunken acquaintance Mento, the group of sorcerers ( which also included Zatara's daughter Zatanna ) observed the events unfolding, and attempted in turn to channel their magical powers into several other mystical characters present in Hell, including Etrigan, the original Doctor Fate, and the Spectre.

Constantine's Shaper family has been disgraced by Constantine's defeat, and Lindsay manages to convert them to his cause, even Constantine's " daughter " Vera ( created from DNA taken from Vera Kelland decades before ).