Constantine 1, emperor

The emperor Constantine paves the way for Christianity to become the official religion of the Roman Empire black magic is outlawed but white magic is tolerated. 

This fixing of the scriptures by the early Christian Fathers was done under the direction, probably, of the Emperor Constantine, who is responsible for the paganization of Christianity in the early centuries. Constantine forced all pagans to accept Christianity, or the religion of Christ, which they did by simply taking the figure of Christ and substituting it for Baal, while the Mother of Christ, the humble Mary of Bethlehem, was made into the Queen of Heaven, in place of Venus or Astaroth. 

A seeond horizontal erossbar represents the third dimension of Peace. However, it has a bloody heritage because the seeond crossbar is the arms of the fastened king." Another way of showing this seeond erossbar is in three dimensions as a St Andrew s eross or Chi-Rho eross of Emperor Constantine. 

Eusebius relates that even the great Emperor Constantine identified with the ritual by having himself depicted with his lance piercing a bristling dragon. In fact, the Red Cross first became... 

The embellished letter C of John Fox s Acts and Monuments of 1563 emphasizes that Elizabeth I is the true successor of Emperor Constantine. So revered was the book that it was placed on the altar, alongside the Bible, in every church in Britain. 

The first of these was to the Kings of Judah through Joseph of Arimathea. The second was to the Roman Emperor Claudius through Emperor Constantine and his son Ambrosius Aurelianus. The gloriously named Ambrosius Aurelianus had an intriguingly magnificient title he was the Prince of the Sanctuary. 

The escalation of fanaticism that led to the Hammer of the Witches had been in progress since the time of Emperor Constantine, who reigned from 306-307CE. After his conversion to Christianity, Emperor Constantine immediately banned all magic and magicians. Under this law, the State could sentence offenders to immolation. 

Figure 23. Roman Folles representing the Emperor Constantine II...

Other historical or m)4hological Helens - the virtuous St Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, for example, whose church in Bishopsgate made her part of the Elizabethan cultural landscape - never displaced the Lacedemonian or... 

That wishing well had not a body in it (1.1.52 166-8), [it cannot] be incidental to All s Well that the largest number of all well-dedications is to the Yoikshire mother of Emperor Constantine, who united Britain and Rome, the first English... 

Michael S. Pucci, Refoiming Roman Emperors John Foxe s Characterization of Constantine in the Acts and Monuments , in John Foxe An Historical Perspective, edited by David Loades (Burlington Ashgate, 1999), p. 44. 

This period of creative strife also stimulated the development of the first Christian philanthropic institutions dedicated to providing medicines and the services of paid, professional physicians for the sick among the homeless poor. It would not be surprising, therefore, to discover that the same period witnessed a new charitable institution to assist orphans in the capital city during the reign of the Arian emperor Constantins II." ... 

Whatever Constantine s motivation, his legislation did not have the desired effect. According to the orator Themistios, the emperor Theodosius (379-395) had to intervene personally to restore property unlawfully taken from orphans by their callous guardians. In addition to individual acts of philanthropy to protect orphans, Theodosius also issued several general laws to assist them, laws that were designed in part to correct problems Constantine s laws had introduced. 

KSser, Das rdmische Privatrecht, 2 225, and note 9. A law of Leo I (JCod, 5.30.3), issued in 472, claimed that Constantine was the emperor who abrogated the rules of Claudius and reestablished the traditional agnatic system. 

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