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    This document summarizes the story of Saints Constantine and Helena. It describes how Constantine saw a vision of a cross before a battle which led to his victory, and how he later adopted Christianity. It also describes Helena, Constantine's mother, who is credited with finding the relics of the Holy Cross and remains of the three wise men during a pilgrimage to Palestine. The feast of Saints Constantine and Helena commemorates the Emperor Constantine and his mother Helena.

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    This document summarizes the story of Saints Constantine and Helena. It describes how Constantine saw a vision of a cross before a battle which led to his victory, and how he later adopted Christianity. It also describes Helena, Constantine's mother, who is credited with finding the relics of the Holy Cross and remains of the three wise men during a pilgrimage to Palestine. The feast of Saints Constantine and Helena commemorates the Emperor Constantine and his mother Helena.

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    Saints Constantine and Helena

    Saints Constantine and Helen is a feast


    in the Byzantine calendar only (used by
    Orthodox Churches and Churches United with
    Rome ), set on May 21 . Feast evokes the
    Emperor Constantine and his mother Helena
    Augusta .

    Legend
    Gaius Flavius Valerius Aurelius
    Constantinus was born in 272/274 and died in
    337 , is known as Constantine I or Constantine
    the Great , was Roman Emperor from 306i
    337 , becoming the ruler of the entire Roman
    Empire after the defeat of Maxentius and his
    Licinius . Legend has it that in the autumn of 312 , on the eve of battle with Maxentius
    , Constantine saw in the sky in broad daylight, a bright cross above the sun, which had
    the inscription "in hoc signo vinces" - "in this sign you will prevail"; and at night he
    appeared in a dream himself Jesus Christ , the sign of the cross, asking him to put the
    flags holy sign his soldiers, to be protective in the fires of battle. Constantine
    proceeded just as these signs and won the battle .

    Empress Helena - Flavia Iulia Helena '(c. 248 - 329 ) was married to Roman
    general Constantinius Chlorus , the mother of St. Emperor Constantine the Mare.A was
    a very faithful woman known for her piety. A pilgrimage done in Palestine and eastern
    provinces, by being awarded finding the relics of the Holy Cross of Christ and finding
    the remains of the three wise men. It is said that while on pilgrimage, saw some
    people that went dead on a hill where there were three crosses. Here we approached
    each. Arriving at last, when the deceased reached the cross, was resurrected. That
    was discovered the cross on which Christ was crucified.

    This is the feast of dedication to the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest .

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