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Constantine's and mother
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.
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.
Constantine's mother, Anaise Pascall, was the daughter of slaves and her brother Victor was also a Trinidad and West Indian first-class cricketer ; in addition, a third family member, Constantine's brother Elias later represented Trinidad.
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.

Constantine's and Helena
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.
To the east of the Chapel of Saint Helena, the excavators discovered a void containing a 2nd century drawing of a Roman ship, two low walls which supported the platform of Hadrian's 2nd century temple, and a higher 4th century wall built to support Constantine's basilica.
The sources are equivocal on the point, sometimes calling Helena Constantius ' " wife ", and sometimes, following the dismissive propaganda of Constantine's rival Maxentius, calling her his " concubine ".
Helena supposedly cast one nail into the sea to calm a storm, while another was incorporated into Constantine's helmet, another fitted to the head of a statue of the Emperor, and a fourth melted down and molded into a bit for Constantine's horse.
Lucian's veneration increased during the latter half of Constantine's reign, in particular due to the patronage of the Empress Helena.

Constantine's and made
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.
Constantine's sympathies for Germany were made manifest during the Allies ' disastrous landing on Gallipoli.
& Quinch for 2000 AD, a title made popular by John Constantine's creator Alan Moore, Delano was selected to start the character's first run in his own comic by then editor Karen Berger in 1988.
A more substantial return was made in 2010 for a hardcover graphic novel Hellblazer: Pandemonium with artist Jock to commemorate the 25th anniversary of John Constantine's first appearance in Swamp Thing.
The Orientalist Karl Sudhoff made his Berber-Islamic thesis when he discovered new and important documents touching on Constantine's life and religion in the village of Trinity Della Cave, northern Italy ; these documents were published in the journal Arkioun in 1922.

Constantine's and city
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.
* Constantinopolis or Constantinople (" Constantine's city "), the former name for Istanbul, Turkey
In 2013 the city will host the celebration of 1700 years of Constantine's Edict of Milan.
Subsequently, although the Greek army won the Giannitsa battle situated 40 km west of Salonika, the Constantine's hesitation in capturing the city after a week had passed, led into an open confrontation with Venizelos.
But soon a new reason of friction emerged due to Venizelos ' concern about Constantine's acceptance of the Bulgarian request to enter the city.
Following Constantine's victory over co-emperor Licinius at the Battle of Chrysopolis ( Üsküdar ) in 324, Nicomedia served as an interim capital city for Constantine the Great between 324 and 330, until the nearby Byzantium was officially declared Nova Roma ( later known as Constantinople, present-day Istanbul ).
The importance of keeping this zone under Rome's control was underlined by Constantine's decision to build a second bridge over the Danube between today's Corabia ( then Sucidava ) and the Bulgarian city of Gigen.
With the support of the barbarians, Gerontius spread over Constantine's territory ; in 411, he captured the city of Vienne and put Constans to death.
The Vandal leader, Amilcar, tells how they were driven from Carthage by the soldiers of the " Emperor of Constantine's great city ;" " Amilcar " is a Phoenician name, and Belisarius drove the Vandals from Africa in the year 534, well after Badon.
After the Emperor Constantine's legalization of Christianity in 311 it played an important role as a metropolitan city.

Constantine's and have
Yet, at first, Constantine's new Rome did not have all the dignities of old Rome.
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.
Others have proposed that the ceremony in some way endorsed Constantine's kingship, prefiguring later royal inaugurations at Scone.
It is unlikely that Constantine's personal authority extended so far north, and while the attacks may have been directed at his allies, they may also have been simple looting expeditions.
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 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.
Two other objections that some Christians may have had to maintaining the custom of consulting the Jewish community in order to determine Easter are implied in Constantine's letter from the Council of Nicea to the absent bishops:
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.
It is unlikely that Constantine's personal authority extended so far north, and while the attacks may have been directed at his allies, they may also have been simple looting expeditions.
However, the events of this wedding have turned Constantine's niece Gemma against him, due to the Demon Constantine sexually assaulting her in the restroom.
Constantine's efforts to retake themes lost to the Arabs were the first such efforts to have any real success.
In his church history, written shortly after the battle, when Eusebius didn't yet have any contact with Constantine, he doesn't mention any dream or vision, but compares the defeat of Maxentius ( drowned in the Tiber ) to that of the biblical pharaoh and credits Constantine's victory to divine protection.
) The Basel edition is missing some of Constantine's prefatory material, but Mark Jordan notes that, while both Basel and Lyons editions are problematic, and have undergone some humanistic retouching, the Basel edition may be more reliable.
In the colonia, Constantine's reign was a time of prosperity and a number of extensive stone town houses of the period have been excavated.
In the West, the image seems to have developed, based perhaps on Byzantine precedents such as the coin of Constantine's Empress Fausta, crowned and with their sons on her lap and on literary examples, such as Flavius Cresconius Corippus's celebration of Justin II's coronation in 565.
Wraeththu have also appeared in several of Constantine's short stories, published in magazines or anthologies.
Writing about the latter, Volf says: " Beginning at least with Constantine's conversion, the followers of the Crucified have perpetrated gruesome acts of violence under the sign of the cross.
Mainly on the strength of his fielding, Austin secured Constantine's selection for the 1923 West Indian tour of England ; it was a surprising choice, as there were other candidates who appeared to have stronger claims.
Later commentators have identified Constantine's book as an important step in West Indian nationalism, and an encouragement to future authors.
Mason believes, however that without Constantine's assistance James may not have later established himself as a celebrated political writer.
The bishops at the First Synod of Tyre in 335 ( which also deposed Athanasius ) seem to have written to Constantine against Marcellus when he refused to communicate with Arius at Constantine's thirtieth-anniversary celebrations at Jerusalem.

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