Constantine

The first Ancient Festival "Serdica is my Rome" will be held in Sofia on September 21-22, 2019.

The aim is to promote the ancient heritage of the city. The residents and guests of the capital will witness a rich program that will familiarize them with the early history of Serdica in the time around the reign of Emperor Constantine.

Bulgarian Christian Orthodox mark Saturday the feast day of St. St. Konstantin and Elena(Constantine and Helena).

In a no-holds-barred interview, shipowner, Olympiacos FC leader, media owner and Piraeus city council candidate Evangelos Marinakis detailed how Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and government ministers have targeted him over the last four years on various levels, including the illegal intervention in open judicial cases.

A 1.500-year-old mosaic floor with a Greek inscription has been uncovered during works to install communications cables in Jerusalem’s Old City – a rare discovery of an ancient relic and an historic document in one.

A 1,500-year-old mosaic floor with a Greek inscription has been uncovered during works to install communications cables in Jerusalem's Old City - a rare discovery of an ancient relic and an historic document in one.

Watching her mom suffer from stage 4 brain cancer was devastating for Maria Menounos.

The Holy relics of St. Helen, mother of Roman Emperor Constantine the Great, will be displayed for the first time in Greece. Along with a section of the Holy Cross, the relics will be exhibited for pilgrimage in the Church of Agia Varvara (St Barbara) in Egaleo suburb of western Athens/Piraeus until June 15th 2017. Pilgrimage will be possible from the morning until 11 p.m. at night.

On Sunday, a week before her feast day on May 21, the relics of St Helen, "Equal to the Apostles" and mother of Constantine the Great, arrived in Greece in the pomp and splendor reserved for heads of state, sacred relics and the Holy Light at Easter.

In a moving atmosphere, thousands of believers welcomed on Sunday in Saint (Agia) Barbara the Holy Relics of Saint (Agia) Helen, the mother of Constantine the Great, from Venice to Athens along with a piece of Holy Wood. They both were brought from the Basilica of St. Mark in Venice were they are being kept.

Constantine, the former king of Greece, is possibly one of the most talked-about figures of the country's recent history, as disparate and fervently opposed forces came together - whether consciously or not is irrelevant - and rid the country of what they viewed as the supervision of the Crown.