Homilies on the Christian Life · Lecture 019
Constantine the Great
A lecture by Dimitrios Panagopoulos · Δείτε στα Ελληνικά
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Summary
Dimitrios Panagopoulos presents Saints Constantine and Helen as instruments of the Holy Spirit in the transformation of Christianity’s historical situation. Constantine is described as a man whose freely chosen good disposition opened him to grace, and the lecture cites the Synaxarion’s titles, including Equal-to-the-Apostles. It recounts the sign of the Cross against Maxentius, the founding of Constantinople, and the First Ecumenical Council at Nicaea, where Constantine honored confessors and burned accusations against clergy unread. The homily also treats his mercy toward Christian children, baptism through Bishop Sylvester after a vision of Peter and Paul, and the icon of mother and son united in sainthood.
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