Constantine the Great
To make up for such a small post on our last entry, we are going above and beyond by delving into Constantine the Great on his birthday. Born on the 27th of February 272, although there is some debate to this as the day was listed but not the year, Constantine I was the Roman Emperor from 306AD to 337AD and notably the first emperor to convert to Christianity which elevated the religion within Rome. He was born in Naissus to Flavius Constantius, a Roman Army officer and later one of the four emperors of the Tetarchy, and Helena who was a woman of low birth and in todays terms no social standings. She did later become a saint though. Constantine served under Diocletian and Galerius and began his military career by campaigning against the Persians before being called back to fight beside his father in Britannia. When Flavius died in 306 Constantine was declared emperor by his army at Eboracum which nowadays is York. This of course explains why there is a statue of him o...
