Apr. 2—Three hundred and 13 years after Jesus Christ had walked the earth, Constantine the Great, the emperor of Rome, made history with his establishment of religious freedom throughout his empire.

This is Venetian artist Palma Vecchio’s depiction of Emperor Constantine I and his mother, Saint Helen, who greatly influenced his religious beliefs. Vecchio lived from 1480-1528. (Courtesy Photo) The ...

For centuries, Christians were a small and sometimes persecuted minority within the Roman Empire. Yet by the 4th century, ...

One battle helped transform a persecuted religion into a global force. Constantine’s rise to power reshaped both Roman ...

Ancient Rome didn’t abandon its gods overnight. The rise of Christianity was a slow transformation of the cult-based religious order that had structured Roman life for centuries ...

The triumph of Christianity is actually a very remarkable historical phenomenon. ... We begin with a small group from the backwaters of the Roman Empire and after two, three centuries go by, lo and ...

A team of archaeologists has uncovered the ruins of an ancient pagan temple from the Roman period in Italy. The temple was found during excavations in the ancient hilltop town of Spello, which is ...

In the past, people attributed the growth of Christianity to miracles. Gregory the Illuminator (257-328) purportedly healed King Tiridates (250-330) of Armenia. Tiridates and his countrymen then ...

It was trying to protect itself, trying to perpetuate itself.... The Romans tried to beat down Christianity but failed. By the fourth century Christianity becomes the state religion and by the end of ...