Helena, mother of Constantine I
Flavia Julia Helena (Ancient Greek: Ἑλένη [Helénē] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help); AD c. c. 250 – c. 329), or Saint Helena was Constantine the Great's mother and a Roman empress (Latin: [augusta] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help)). 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 | |
|---|---|
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 |
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Helena, Mother Of Constantine I Media
- Rare solidus of Helena, RIC VII 60.jpg
Coin of Helena as Augusta, minted in Sirmium in AD 324.
- Agia Eleni Sille.jpg
The church of the Archangel Michael founded by St. Helen in Sille, Konya in Asia Minor in 327
- St Helena finding the true cross.jpg
Helena finding the True Cross, Italian manuscript, c. 825
- Nuremberg chronicles f 130v 1..jpg
St Helena in the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493
- Helena of Constantinople (Cima da Conegliano).jpg
Helena of Constantinople by Cima da Conegliano, 1495 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
- Lucas Cranach the Elder - Saint Helena with the Cross - Google Art Project.jpg
Saint Helena with the Cross, Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1525 (Cincinnati Art Museum)
- BnF MS Gr510 folio 440 recto - detail - Helena and the Invention of the True Cross.jpg
Saint Helena retrieving the true cross, miniature from the 9th century Paris Gregory
- Satue of Saint Helen.jpg
Baroque statue of "Santa Liena" in the 2011 village festa procession of Birkirkara, Malta
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.