christian sources tend to hush-hush about it. they don t want to say anything. but the pagan sources jump all over constantine. the story goes that constantine discovers that his son crispus, his favorite son, has been having an affair with constantine s second wife, fausta. what we re told by the sources we have is that on the orders of his father he is sent to a place called pola on the coast of croatia. and he is put to death by poison.
grandson. this must have been devastating for her. but the scandal is about to get bigger. constantine discovers, from back channels, that perhaps fausta had manufactured all of this, that she favored her own sons for the throne and that she set crispus up to be murdered. he orders that she be put in a back chamber, the doors locked and the fires stoked to the point that it cooks her to death. as the self-proclaimed christian emperor, he s engaged in the sin of murder.
discovers that his son, crispus his favorite son, has been having an affair with constantine s second wife, fausta. what we re told by the sources we have is that on the orders of his father, he is sent to the coast of croatia. and he is put to death by poison. helena was crushed by this scandal. this was likely her favorite
thou shalt not kill is one of the top commandments. constantine will have thought of helena as his great ally, thinking that he can rely on his mother s support in anything. perhaps he should have thought again before he killed her grandson. you are weak. you are a weak and sinful man. the murder of fausta and of crispus happens in 326. helena departs for the holy land
of death to be a christian. after that, you were free. constantine legalizes christianity throughout the empire. 14 years later, his mother is on her way to the holy land. i think that she was sent by the emperor constantine. he felt that the cross was very important, and he wanted to send her there to do something special. there is potentially a darker side to helena s journey. it follows on from a scandalous episode within the house of constantine. constantine abandoned his first wife to marry the noble woman fausta. fausta has given him three young