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 |
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.
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
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
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References
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