Helena, mother of Constantine I
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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 |
Flavia Julia Helena (Ancient Greek: Ἑλένη, romanized: 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.
Helena's sarcophagus in the Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museums, Rome
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Kienast, Dietmar; Eck, Werner; Heil, Matthäus (2017) [1990]. "Constantin I. (25. Juli 306– 22. Mai 337)". Römische Kaisertabelle: Grundzüge einer römischen Kaiserchronologie (in German) (6th ed.). Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WBG). pp. 286–295. ISBN 978-3-534-26724-8.