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    During the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great (306–337 AD), Christianity began to transition to the dominant religion of the Roman Empire...
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    The Religious policies of Constantine the Great have been called "ambiguous and elusive.": 120  Born in 273 during the Crisis of the Third Century (AD...
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    Edict of Milan. Constantine the Great and Christianity Constantinian shift Peace of God Papacy in late antiquity Frend, W. H. C. (1965). The Early Church...
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    Constantine I (27 February c. 272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor...
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    year Constantine and Licinius proclaimed the toleration of Christianity with the Edict of Milan, and in 325 Constantine convened and presided over the First...
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    beginning of Constantine's conversion to Christianity. Eusebius of Caesarea recounts that Constantine and his soldiers had a vision sent by the Christian...
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    The Donation of Constantine (Latin: Donatio Constantini) is a forged Roman imperial decree by which the 4th-century emperor Constantine the Great supposedly...
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    Constantinian shift (category Constantine the Great and Christianity)
    the fourth century", but that there was "no permanent, epochal 'Constantinian shift'". Constantine the Great (reigned 306–337) adopted Christianity as...
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    Labarum (category Constantine the Great and Christianity)
    letters of the word "Christ" (Greek: ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ, or Χριστός) – Chi (χ) and Rho (ρ). It was first used by the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. Ancient sources...
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    Christianity in the 4th century was dominated in its early stage by Constantine the Great and the First Council of Nicaea of 325, which was the beginning...
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    The Fifty Bibles of Constantine were Bibles in the original Greek language commissioned in 331 by Constantine I and prepared by Eusebius of Caesarea....
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    Constantinianism (category Constantine the Great and Christianity)
    Constantine the Great and Christianity Constantinian shift Christendom Donation of Constantine History of Christian thought on persecution and tolerance Hagman...
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  • Decline of an Empire (category Constantine the Great and Christianity)
    as Constantine the Great Dudley Sutton as Marcellus Edward Fox as Constantius Samantha Beckinsale as Vita The film was due for release in 2014 and was...
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    First Council of Nicaea (category Constantine the Great and Christianity)
    convened in the Bithynian city of Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey) by the Roman Emperor Constantine I. The Council of Nicaea met from May until the end of July...
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    In hoc signo vinces (category Constantine the Great and Christianity)
    writers. Here Lactantius preserves the story of Constantine's vision of the Chi Rho before his conversion to Christianity. The full text is found in only one...
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  • Eusebius of Nicomedia (category Constantine the Great and Christianity)
    baptized Constantine the Great on his deathbed in 337. A fifth-century legend evolved that Pope Sylvester I was the one to baptize Constantine, but this...
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    Old St. Peter's Basilica (category Constantine the Great and Christianity)
    description of Solomon's Temple in 1 Kings 6. Constantine took great pains to build the basilica on the site he and Pope Sylvester I believed to be Saint Peter's...
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    Hagia Irene (category Constantine the Great and Christianity)
    the eastern capital of the Roman Empire. According to later tradition but disputed by some scholars, the Roman emperor Constantine I commissioned the...
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    began to favour Christianity and signed the Edict of Milan legalizing the religion. The Bishop of Jerusalem Macarius asked Constantine for permission to...
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    When Constantine the Great came to power in 306, he worked to stop the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. However, this led to a large split...
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    encourages him to convert to Christianity. October 29 – Constantine enters Rome; he stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation...
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  • during the reign of Constantine the Great. It is thought to have been sited on an island where the Imperial Palace of Antioch used to stand during the Seleucid...
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    Stavrovouni Monastery (category Constantine the Great and Christianity)
    St. Helena and Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. According to the 15th-century Cypriot chronicler Leontios Makhairas, after the end of the First Ecumenical...
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    Constantinople and in Christianity as Saint Helena, was an Augusta of the Roman Empire and mother of Emperor Constantine the Great. She was born in the lower classes...
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    by Ambrose and others, it included relics gathered in the Holy Land by his mother, Empress Helena. Constantine's conversion to Christianity, which happened...
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    lasted until Constantine I, along with Licinius, legalized Christianity in 313. The New Catholic Encyclopedia states that "Ancient, medieval and early modern...
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  • by Shemon Bar Sabbae, the Patriarch of the Church of the East, however, the conversion of Constantine the Great to Christianity caused Shapur to start...
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    "Persecution in the Early Church: Did You Know?". Constantine the Great and Christianity "Elders". Archived from the original on November 5, 2011. Retrieved January...
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  • Christianity, early Christianity in Rome during the 1st to 4th centuries Christianization of the Roman Empire Constantine the Great and Christianity Decline...
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  • Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom is a 2010 book by Peter Leithart which examines Constantine the Great and Christianity...
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