Feast of Saints Constantine and Helen tomorrow
May 21st. Constantine the Great was born in 274 AD. His father was
Constantine the 1st Chloros and his mother Eleni from Drepano of
Bithynia. The Lord wishing to help him in his struggle against Maxxtius
and Likinion then formed in the sky the sign of the Cross with the
inscription " Here, Nika. "Shortly before he died, Constantine claimed
the Holy Baptism, and immediately he said," Now it is true that I am a
bachelor of this, now, of immortal life, I am astonished, now I believe
in divine light. " Now, that is, according to the word of truth, I know I
am a blessing, now I have become worthy of the immortal life, now I
have believed that I received the Divine Light. He was sacrificed at the
age of 63, on May 21, 327. History called Constantine the Great, and
the Church proclaimed him Saint and Isapostolos .... Constantinople, the
first Christian city
Churches, palaces and hippies ... Constantine had made a sacred
mechanism that would feed this city with an indestructible force.
In the new city, Constantine will initially try to keep the balance
between the old and the new ones. At the acropolis of the city there
were temples dedicated to Rea, the mother of the gods and the goddess of
Luciferus of Rome. However, over time, the forms of the ancient gods of
the Greek and Roman pantheons began to be replaced by the Christian.
Where the temple of Aphrodite was located in the ancient Byzantium,
Konstantinos constructed the famous basilica of the Holy Apostles in
which the Byzantine emperors would be buried. Constantine city will soon
become the first Christian city in the world, the seat of the eastern
empire that will develop and dominate. Saint Helena was the one that
gave M. Konstantinos the proper education. Besides, he himself honored
it when, in the great square of Constantinople, he built two columns,
one of his own and one of St. Helen, which had the inscription: "In the
Holy One to the Lord Jesus Christ, give thanks to God the Father, Amen."
Saint Helena helped build the first great sacred churches of
Christianity. He died peacefully in 327 AD. At the age of 83 years.
Fr. Constantino's Eliud
