Saints Constantine and Helen - Feast Day May 21
Saint Helen of Constantinople c. 250-328 AD, said to have been a Christian from birth and thought to have been born in Depranum (modern Trapani) in Bithynia, was the mother of Roman emperor Constantine I, (c. 272 – 337).
After Helen seperated from her husband, Constantius Chlorus I, father of Constantine I, she is not mentioned again in history until 306 AD, the year Constantine became emperor, when she went to live with him in Byzantium, which he had made his new capital and renamed Constantinople after himself (modern day Istanbul).
Helen is said to have discovered " The True Cross", whilst on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem
Constantine I (c. 272 – 337), son of Saint Helen, the first emperor to convert to Christianity, also known as Constantine the Great, was Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337.
Constantine I, or Constantine the Great, is known for his conversion to Christianity in 312 CE and the ensuing Christianization of the Roman Empire.
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