Word: constantius
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...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...
...deposits in the Cambridge Savings Bank, and the income of certain other shares held in trust, all the property of the late professor has been bequeathed to the college. His books will form part of the library, and the remaining property will be, at his request, called the Constantius fund. This fund is manned after his paternal uncle, Canstantius the Sinaite, and its object is two-fold. Half the income is to be devoted to buying Greek, Latin and Arabic books, bor ooks explaining or illustrating such named books; the other half to go to the catalogue department...