2024-08-18 00:00:00
Saint Helena (Helena), Empress of Rome, mother of Constantine I, was the emperor who stopped the persecution of Christians and granted them freedom of worship within the empire’s borders. GO St. Helena He is credited with the discovery of the Holy Cross on which Christ died in Jerusalem.
Saint Helen is also known as ‘Helen of Constantinople’ or ‘Saint Helen of the Cross’. Faithful Christians turn to her when something or someone is missing, so that with her help what is lost is found.
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Rejected by her husband, she found the true God
Elena was born around the year 246, in Bithynia, a former province of the Roman Empire located in the northwest of Asia Minor, southwest of the Black Sea (modern Turkey). Although her origins were humble – she is said to have been the daughter of a servant – she was married to Constantius Chlorus, who would become emperor under the name Constantius I. They were both parents of Constantine I.
In the time of the Emperor Maximian, Constantius Clorus was already recognized as an outstanding military man. When the emperor realized his potential, he invited him to become his closest collaborator, but on one condition: that he would marry his wife, Elena, and marry his daughter. Allowing himself to be carried away by ambition, Constantius denied Elena.
The saint would be under, as a result, a shameful abandonment for 14 years. However, in the midst of loneliness, she met God and converted to Christianity, probably under the influence of her son, the future emperor, who accepted Christianity before her.
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