real or virtual history?
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I remain curious of a combined history of the 'authentic'
and the 'legendary'.
"It is long believed by native Christians in the Near East
that Helena announced her discovery of the True Cross by
means of a relay of bonfires. The late Professor Hitti, a
native of Lebanon, reports that "native Christians,
particularly in Lebanon, still celebrate on September 14 a
feast with bonfires re-enacting Helena's traditional
announcement of the discovery to her son at Constantinople
by means of bonfires from hilltop to hilltop." Professors
Hitti's report is based on personal observation, one may
assume, and has been independently verified."
--Hans A. Pohlsander, HELENA: EMPRESS AND SAINT, page 199.
According to Timothy D. Barnes, THE NEW EMPIRE OF DIOCLETIAN
AND CONSTANTINE, Constantine resided at Nicomedia (today's
Izmit, Turkey, not far from Istanbul) from 25 July 325 to
circa 15 September 325. This chronology is based on passages
in the CODEX THEODOSIUS. (footnote 126, p. 76:
...Constantine was still in or near Nicomedia when he exiled
Eusebius of Nicomedia, "three months" after the Council of
Nicaea.)
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I remain curious of a combined history of the 'authentic'
and the 'legendary'.
"It is long believed by native Christians in the Near East
that Helena announced her discovery of the True Cross by
means of a relay of bonfires. The late Professor Hitti, a
native of Lebanon, reports that "native Christians,
particularly in Lebanon, still celebrate on September 14 a
feast with bonfires re-enacting Helena's traditional
announcement of the discovery to her son at Constantinople
by means of bonfires from hilltop to hilltop." Professors
Hitti's report is based on personal observation, one may
assume, and has been independently verified."
--Hans A. Pohlsander, HELENA: EMPRESS AND SAINT, page 199.
According to Timothy D. Barnes, THE NEW EMPIRE OF DIOCLETIAN
AND CONSTANTINE, Constantine resided at Nicomedia (today's
Izmit, Turkey, not far from Istanbul) from 25 July 325 to
circa 15 September 325. This chronology is based on passages
in the CODEX THEODOSIUS. (footnote 126, p. 76:
...Constantine was still in or near Nicomedia when he exiled
Eusebius of Nicomedia, "three months" after the Council of
Nicaea.)
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