It is a great educational journey backward historical, cultural, political, religious that helps shed light on the roots of the Christian West, aptly illustrating the turning point desired ...

This was the great age of Christian diversity ... can try to iron out creeds and get everybody to sign up. CONSTANTINE'S IMPERIAL CHRISTIANITY One of the first things Constantine does, as emperor ...

Prior to the proliferation of Christianity under Emperor Constantine the Great, the trials and tribulations of the Church were of little interest to wider Roman civilization. Christians had faced ...

"Through your leadership, you embody the values of our Christian faith and a love for the Gospel. You remind me of the great Roman Emperor Constantine the Great, who founded and built the ...

Around six years later, back in Italy, Constantine converted from paganism to Christianity. His "epiphany" was said to have happened on the eve of battle with a competing Emperor, Maxentius.

Following his battlefield conversion, Constantine established Christianity as the official religion of Rome, and he decided that Christ's birth should become a major focus of the Christian year.