he's the guy who founded christianity (325 ad)- what can you tell me about him?
2006-09-03 19:46:10 · 11 answers · asked by list 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I can tell you he DID NOT invent Christianity. The term Christian is recorded as being first used in the Book of Acts at the town of Antioch.
I wish everyone who believes he invented Christianity or even the Catholic Church would just read the Edict of Milan. This is the order he issued and all it did was to legalize Christianity. It also retained as legal all of the other existing pagan religions. Constantine's Rome was very much like these United States where every kind of religion around was legal to practice.
Find the Edict of Milan and read it. Please.
2006-09-03 19:59:49 · answer #1 · answered by Augustine 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The emperor Constantine is not considered a saint by Roman Catholics, but only by Eastern Orthodox Christians.
Constantine didn't found any religion and he only became a Christian on his deathbed.
He didn't make Christianity the State Religion of the Roman Empire (Theodosis (AD 378-398) did). He only stopped the persecutions against Christians and allowed them to practice publicly their religion.
2006-09-03 21:45:51 · answer #2 · answered by JLD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a) For the record, he did not found Christianity. He made it the legal religion for the Roman Empire.
b) Grew up a pagan. Went for the brass ring i.e. Roman Emperor. Before he crossed the Rubicon - the final point before he could not turn back - he had a dream with the words In Hoc Signum. It means "In this sign". Along with it was a red cross. The next morning he broke out the red paint and painted red crosses on shields, wagons etc. He won. You see remnants of this in the IHS abbreviation.
His mother, Helen visited the holy land some years later and through divine "dreams"??? located the so-called sites revered today as the point of crucifiixion, nativity and so forth.
2006-09-03 19:51:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Constantine the Great did not start Christianity. He was given the title "great' by the church though, because he was the first roman emperor to vote for religious tolerance in 313, with the decree of Milan (it was then called Mediolanum). With this enact, Christians all over the roman empire were finally free to worship their god without pressure or persecutions (like it happened in the past).
His mother was Helen, she was christian herself and the popular church tradition claims that she convinced her son to send her to Jerusalem with troops to search for the Holy Cross. She supposedly found it under a pile of rocks on Golgotha hill, under a basil plant. Constantine's memory is celebrated along with his mother's in may in the eastern orthodox church.
Apart from what he did for Christianity, he was the emperor that transferred the roman capital from Rome to Constantinople, thus inauguration the new era of the Byzantine empire. The glorious city was named after him.
2006-09-03 20:53:20 · answer #4 · answered by mortisia2121 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-06 08:48:56 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He had a vision of a cross and it compelled him to legalize Christianity in Rome. There's a lot more, but it's 3am. Oh and he did not found Christianity or Roman Christianity. Christianity already existed and was in Rome and all the Christians were being eaten by lions in the Colosseum!
2006-09-03 20:00:53 · answer #6 · answered by puma 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
list,
You have no sources that could be respected, to back your claim up. Constantine did not start Christianity.
Read a book.
2006-09-03 19:49:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Christianity was founded by Jesus, twit.
Roman Catholicism is founded by Constantine.
2006-09-03 19:52:15 · answer #8 · answered by Adyghe Ha'Yapheh-Phiyah 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
he is a christian saint. he was a paganist and converted just before he died. for more information, google "Constantine the Great"
PS. he DID NOT found christianity
2006-09-03 19:48:37 · answer #9 · answered by antigone 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was a swisher, really.
2006-09-03 19:48:51 · answer #10 · answered by Marcus R. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋