Helena, mother of Constantine I
Flavia Julia Helena (Ancient Greek: Ἑλένη Helénē; AD c. c. 250 – c. 329), or Saint Helena was Constantine the Great's mother and a Roman empress (Latin: augusta). Helena was a wife or concubine of Constantius I before he became a Roman emperor.[1] In Christianity, Helena is a saint because Christian historians during Late Antiquity wrote that she found the relics of the True Cross in Jerusalem. Helena's tomb was the Mausoleum of Helena outside Rome.
Saint Helena | |
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Eastern Orthodox icon of Saint Constantine the Great and his mother Saint Helena | |
Empress; Mother of Constantine the Great | |
Born | c. 250, Drepanum, Bithynia, Asia Minor |
Died | c. late 329, Rome |
Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Churches Oriental Orthodoxy Anglican Communion Lutheran Church |
Canonized | Pre-Congregation |
Major shrine | The shrine to Saint Helena in Saint Peter's Basilica |
Feast | August 18 (Roman Catholic Church); May 21 (Lutheran & Orthodox Churches); May 19 (Lutheran Church); 9 Pashons (Coptic Orthodox Church) |
Attributes | Cross |
Patronage | archeologists, converts, difficult marriages, divorced people, empresses, Helena, the capital of Montana |
Helena, Mother Of Constantine I Media
The church of the Archangel Michael founded by St. Helen in Sille, Konya in Asia Minor in 327
Helena finding the True Cross, Italian manuscript, c. 825
St Helena in the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493
Helena of Constantinople by Cima da Conegliano, 1495 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
Saint Helena with the Cross, Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1525 (Cincinnati Art Museum)
Saint Helena retrieving the true cross, miniature from the 9th century Paris Gregory.
Baroque statue of "Santa Liena" in the 2011 village festa procession of Birkirkara, Malta
Helena's sarcophagus in the Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museums, Rome
References
- ↑ Kienast, Dietmar; Eck, Werner; Heil, Matthäus (2017) [1990]. "Constantin I. (25. Juli 306– 22. Mai 337)". Römische Kaisertabelle: Grundzüge einer römischen Kaiserchronologie (in Deutsch) (6th ed.). Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WBG). pp. 286–295. ISBN 978-3-534-26724-8.