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.

Constantine's position grew even more untenable ; his forces facing the rebel Gerontius were defeated at Vienne ( 411 ), where his son Constans was captured and executed.

Constantine's position about iconoclasm was clear:

Constantine's position improved after he married, as his second wife, a niece of Emperor Romanos III Argyros.

As his new employer's longer working hours restricted Constantine's cricket practice, when he was selected for the West Indies tour he resigned his position.

Two of Constantine's Solomonic column s in their present day location on a pier in St Peter's, Rome.

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 Onomasticon has traditionally been dated before 324, on the basis of its sparse references to Christianity, and complete absence of remarks on Constantine's buildings in the Holy Land.

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

When asked by Constantia ( Emperor Constantine's sister ) for an image of Jesus, Eusebius denied the request, replying that " To depict purely the human form of Christ before its transformation, on the other hand, is to break the commandment of God and to fall into pagan error ".

He restored pagan temples which had been confiscated since Constantine's time, or simply appropriated by wealthy citizens ; he repealed the stipends that Constantine had awarded to Christian bishops, and removed their other privileges, including a right to be consulted on appointments and to act as private courts.

Missorium depicting Constantine's son Constantius II, accompanied by a guardsman with the Chi Rho monogram depicted on his shield

Constantine's men inflicted heavy losses on the retreating army.

He can easily regrow damaged or severed body parts, and can even transport himself across the globe by leaving his current form, transferring his consciousness to a new form grown from whatever vegetable matter is present in the location he wishes to reach ( he even grew himself a form out of John Constantine's meager tobacco supply on one occasion ).

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.

Selected as one of the last popes of the Byzantine Papacy, the defining moment of Constantine's pontificate was his 710 / 711 visit to Constantinople where he compromised with Justinian II on the Trullan canons of the Quinisext Council.

In early 310, Maximian attempted to seize Constantine's title while the emperor was on campaign on the Rhine.

Maximian committed suicide in the summer of 310 on Constantine's orders.

James Young Simpson, who had written several articles on archaeology, observed that there were contradictory accounts concerning the location of Constantine's death.

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 ".

Constantine's response to this tightening circle of enemies was a final desperate gamble: he marched on Italy with the remaining troops left to him, encouraged by the entreaties of one Allobich who wanted to replace Honorius with a more capable ruler.

Despite the promise of safe passage, and Constantine's assumption of clerical offices, Constantius imprisoned the former soldier and had him beheaded on his way to Ravenna in either August or September 411.

Constantine's insistence on neutrality was based on his judgement that it was the best policy for Greece.

Constantine's own policy went beyond tolerating Christianity: he tolerated paganism and other religions, but Christianity he actively promoted.

Most influential people in the empire, however, especially high military officials, had not converted to Christianity and still participated in the traditional religions of Rome ; Constantine's rule exhibited at least a willingness to appease these factions.

Yet, at first, Constantine's new Rome did not have all the dignities of old Rome.

* July 25 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum at Rome to commemorate Constantine's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.

Constantine's infantry then advanced, most of Maxentius's troops fought well but they began to be pushed back toward the Tiber ; Maxentius decided to retreat and make another stand at Rome itself ; but there was only one escape route, via the bridge.

The descriptions of Constantine's entry into Rome omit mention of him ending his procession at the temple of Capitoline Jupiter, where sacrifice was usually offered.

However, Constantine's primary motivation for the trip was to " forestall " a rift between Rome and Constantinople over the Trullan decrees.

The fact of Constantine's having been summoned to Constantinople was the real proof that the " imperial writ still ran in Rome ".

However, shortly after Constantine's return to Rome, Justinian was killed by mutinous troops, in November 711.

That very day Constantine's army fought the forces of Maxentius and won the Battle of the Milvian Bridge ( 312 ), outside Rome.

Both refer to Constantine's decennalia, i. e. the 10th anniversary of his reign ( counted from 306 ), which he celebrated in Rome in the summer of 315.

Approximately four times larger than today's cathedral, this church was one of Constantine's great imperial foundations, ranking with other major churches at Rome, Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem.

Waldipert accompanied Sergius in an attack on Rome that ended Constantine's papacy.

The Age of Persecution began in 64 AD with the persecution of Christians in Rome by Nero and ended in 313 AD with Constantine's Edict of Milan.

The religious aspect of the conflict was reflected in Licinius drawing up his battle lines with images of the pagan gods of Rome prominently displayed, whilst Constantine's army fought under his talismanic Christian standard, the labarum.

He maintained that the transfer of the imperial authority from Rome to Constantinople was national and not geographic, and therefore did not belong to the Latins occupying Constantinople: Constantine's heritage was passed on to the Hellenes, so he argued, and they alone were its inheritors and successors.

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.

After favorable reader reaction to John Constantine's appearances in the comic book series Swamp Thing, where he had been introduced by Alan Moore during his authorship of the title, the character was given his own comic book series in 1988.

Constantine's campaigns were costly ; during his reign the Byzantine Empire's annual revenues were reduced to about 1, 800, 000 nomismata due to his various wars and the Arab conquests.

Following Constantine's deathbed conversion in 337 all emperors adopted Christianity, except for Julian the Apostate who, during his brief reign, attempted unsuccessfully to re-instate paganism.

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

Moreover, Constantine's public statements regarding communism during the 1960s renders the veracity of this allegation questionable.

Coins and medallions minted during Emperor Constantine's reign also bore the Chi-Rho.

They are usually read as sign of Constantine's shifting religious affiliation: The Christian tradition, most notably Lactantius and Eusebius of Caesarea, relate the story of a vision of God to Constantine during the campaign, and that he was victorious in the sign of the cross at the Milvian Bridge.

The transition from Constantine's defensive-centered coaching style to Becanic's coaching style for the returning players, and the team struggled at times during the season.

Streit was King Constantine's confidential adviser and had been foreign minister during the first part of the war when King Constantine was still on the Greek throne.

Nevertheless, as Ammianus Marcellinus recounts, Constantine's successor, Constantius, had to sent in 360 embassies with costly presents to Arsaces of Armenia and Meribanes of Iberia to secure their allegiance during the confrontation with Iran.

Lucian's veneration increased during the latter half of Constantine's reign, in particular due to the patronage of the Empress Helena.

This season ended Constantine's career in professional league cricket, although during the war he returned to play for Nelson as an amateur.

Constantine's efforts ensured that law was maintained during the gold rush, that Canadian sovereignty was assured and helped create the Mounties ' international reputation.