This is Venetian artist Palma Vecchio’s depiction of Emperor Constantine I and his mother, Saint Helen, who greatly influenced his religious beliefs. Vecchio lived from 1480-1528. (Courtesy Photo) The ...

The Arch of Constantine was built in the 4th century AD to celebrate the victory of Constantine - the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity - over his rival Maxentius. It is about 82 feet (25 ...

ROME (AP) -- Emperor Constantine, the 4th century ruler whose embrace of Christianity helped spread the Christian faith throughout the Roman Empire, now has a reconstructed statue befitting his larger ...

Six of the nine winning 'I voted' stickers from Michigan's 2024 sticker contest. Read full article: ‘Judges can‘t be killed? Says who?’: Macomb County man sends over 400 email threats to judge A few ...

In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine received a vision from God: if he embraced Christianity he would win. His ...

Today in the year 1449, the last emperor of the Romans was crowned in the small town of Mystras in Greece, far away from the ...

The Emperor Constantine, the first Christian ruler of the Roman Empire and the man who ended that empire’s persecution of Christianity, died this week (May 22) in 337 AD, having lived a life that ...

Stephenson, a historian at the University of Durham, successfully combines historical documents, examples of Roman art, sculpture, and coinage with the lessons of geopolitics to produce a complex ...

Ancient Rome continues to fascinate us, with each new generation seeing echoes of its own hopes and fears in the rise and fall of an empire that seems simultaneously modern and alien. Only a handful ...

The Bible praises Cyrus of Persia as a servant of God but never claims him as a proselyte. Likewise, emperor Constantine I of Rome became a liberator for Christians suffering at the hands of his ...

Read full article: Pit bull attacks, kills neighbor’s dog in northeast Bexar County San Antonio police responded to a shooting that happened just after 3 p.m. on Feb. 26, 2025, in the 900 block of ...

New York: The Overlook Press, 2010. Pp. xxvi, 358. Illus., maps, gloss., abbrev., biblio., index. $30.00. ISBN: 1590203240 It is difficult to write a biography of ...