This is Venetian artist Palma Vecchio’s depiction of Emperor Constantine I and his mother, Saint Helen, who greatly influenced his religious beliefs. Vecchio lived from 1480-1528. (Courtesy ...

Emperor Constantine I convened the first ecumenical council in Nicaea. Why did he summon all the Christian bishops of his ...

May 21 is a festive day as the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates Saint Constantine, the founder of Constantinople, and his ...

On this day in 337, Constantine the Great, became on his deathbed the first Roman emperor to be baptized in the Christian ...

The Romanian Orthodox Church celebrates Holy Emperors Constantine and Elena Day on May 21. Over 1.7 million Romanian citizens ...

CONSTANTINE'S IMPERIAL CHRISTIANITY One of the first things Constantine does, as emperor, is start persecuting other Christians. The Gnostic Christians are targeted...and other dualist Christians.

Seventeen centuries ago, Constantine, emperor of the Roman Empire, faced a fracturing religious landscape. Christianity, though still emerging from centuries of persecution, offered something rare ...

A portrait of the final Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palailogos, has been discovered by archaeologists in Greece. The portrait was found on a mid-15th century fresco uncovered at a monastery ...

The honorary arch, which is nearly 70 feet tall, was erected in 315 A.D. to celebrate the victory of Emperor Constantine over Maxentius after the battle at Milvian Bridge in Rome. Fernando ...