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27 de jun. de 2023 · But Egeria was not the first pilgrim to Jerusalem. That would have been Helena, the mother of Emperor Constantine.Tradition claims that her pilgrimage to the Holy Land had the specific purpose of ...
22 de feb. de 2016 · St. Helena, the First Christian Pilgrim On a visit to Rome, we sought out the church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. My American Express Guide to Rome (long out of print, but still handy) says it was “One of the seven pilgrim churches of Rome, it is said to have been built to house the precious relics of the True Cross brought to Rome from Jerusalem by St. Helena, the mother of Constantine.”
Helena, mother of the emperor Constantine, is best known for her unaccompanied junket to the Holy Land, when she was about 76-80 years old. While there, she acquired what were represented to be relics of Christ's life, crucifixion, and resurrection (pieces of the True Cross, nails therefrom, etc.), which she dutifully sent back to Europe and Constantinople.
16 de sept. de 2020 · published on 16 September 2020. Simon Reeve begins in Istanbul, Turkey, a busy medieval staging post for pilgrims to the Holy Land. Before falling to the Ottoman Empire, it was the centre of Roman Christianity under Emperor Constantine. His mother Helena, arguably the first pilgrim to the Holy Land, brought back relics from Jerusalem to fill ...
2 de abr. de 2023 · The answer is that sacred sites were “rediscovered” in the fourth century by Queen Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine. In the year 326, Constantine sent Helena to find the True Cross and identify the holy places. “We think Helena was the start of the holy geography,” Ashkenazi explains. Helena’s mission could also underlie Eusebius ...
20 de ene. de 2019 · St. Helena is one of the most important figures in the history of the early church. The mother of the emperor Constantine and an early Christian, she was pivotal in influencing her son in legalizing the practice of Christianity in the Roman Empire in the 4 th century. During the 320s, Constantine commissioned his mother Helena to travel to the Holy Land to identify Biblical sites (where new ...
21 de jul. de 2023 · Jul 21, 2023. Egeria, also called Eteria, Ætheria or Etheria, was a Galician pilgrim, traveller and writer from the 4th century. The importance of this historical figure is enormous, since she is the first pilgrim and traveller that we know of, as well as being the first known writer from the Iberian Peninsula.
