CONSTANTINE'S CONVERSION One of the most surprising Christian heroes in the entire tradition, I think, is Constantine. He is, first of all, a successful general. He is also the son of a successful ...

Following his battlefield conversion, Constantine established Christianity as the official religion of Rome, and he decided that Christ's birth should become a major focus of the Christian year.

Historians would rightly point to a single event in the 4th Century as the one that sealed Christianity’s fate. This was the conversion of the Roman Emperor Constantine. Once Christianity was ...

Initially it was the religion of the urban areas: the civitas. The population at large, though, continued for some time their polytheistic worship based on Roman and Celtic beliefs.

Around six years later, back in Italy, Constantine converted from paganism to Christianity. His "epiphany" was said to have happened on the eve of battle with a competing Emperor, Maxentius.

ANCIENT ROADS FROM CHRIST TO CONSTANTINE charts Christianity's evolution from a small movement to the largest religion in the world, with more than two billion followers. Host Jonathan Phillips ...

When evaluating how Christianity adopted this firm stance on monogamy, Lawrence suggests it can be traced back to Constantine ...

The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of ... The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Numismatic Society Vol. 17, 1877 CHRISTIAN EMBLEMS ON THE COINS OF CONSTA... CHRISTIAN EMBLEMS ON THE COINS OF ...

Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.

The origins of Christianity is the greatest story never told. Just under three centuries passed between Jesus’ crucifixion and A.D. 325, when Constantine the Great convened the Council of Nicaea.

Michael Portillo investigates the legacy of the Roman Emperor Constantine - the man who transformed Christianity from a clandestine handful of followers of Jesus Christ into one of the world's ...