Word: constantius
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Cotton Cloth. The tunic tradition goes back to Flavia Helena, wife of Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus (he is said to have picked her up in a Balkan tavern during one of his campaigns) and mother of Constantine the Great. Converted to Christianity about 312, Helena later journeyed to the Holy Land, went to Calvary, and (wrote St. Ambrose 70 years later) "had excavations made, the debris cleared away and unearthed three crucifixion trees huddled together and covered with mud . . . She also set out to look for the nails which had pinned the Lord to the Cross and found them." Chronicler...
...that the church believes in rendering unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, but that it also insists on rendering unto God the things that are God's. The letter quoted the "gemlike words" that Hosius, Bishop of Cordova, wrote to the all-powerful Roman Emperor Constantius in 353: "Remember that you are mortal. Fear the Judgment Day. Keep yourself pure for that day, and do not get involved in ecclesiastical matters . . ." Perón's undaunted Information Office, which cares neither for bishops nor emperors, ordered the Argentine press to ignore the letter...
Britain's old King Coel, a Roman puppet of the 3rd Century, may have been a merry old soul, but his daughter Helena was a sober young gentlewoman. She made a proper marriage to the Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus, and bore him a son who became Constantine the Great. After Constantine had accepted Christianity, the Empress Dowager Helena-by that time a doughty dame of 80 or so-undertook the arduous pilgrimage to Jerusalem. While there, she discovered in an abandoned cistern two baulks of timber which a great part of the Christian world has ever since accepted...