Holy Emperor Constantine and the Edict of Milan: + Commemorating the 1700 Years Since the Edict of Milan of 313 +

Publication Data: Alhambra, CA: Sebastian Press, 2013
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: 72
Dimensions (l × w × h): 14.5 cm × 10.1 cm × 0.3 cm
Additional Information: multi-color printing, full-color illustrations
ISBN: 978‒1‒936773‒11‒4

   
Bishop Athanasius (Yevtich)

“Over a hundred years ago, on September 13, 1913, in St. Petersburg Spiritual Academy in Imperial Russia, the 1600 years of the Triumph of Christianity under Holy Emperor Constantine the Great was celebrated. On this occasion, Alexander Ivanovich Brilliantov (born in 1867, died in Bolshevik exile in Siberia in 1934), the professor of Church history, the disciple and successor of the great historian of the Church V.V. Bolotov, delivered a solemn speech, beginning with the following words: ‘As it is in the history of the Christian Church Herself, so it is in the history of state life of the civilized mankind; one can scarcely indicate another moment which, in its universally apparent importance and extent of consequences, could be compared with the event that marked the reign of Constantine the Great – the visible triumph in his time of the religion of the Cross, i.e. Christianity, in the midst of the Greco-Roman world, hitherto hostile to it, when not only was full freedom declared for the Christian Church, previously submitted to severe persecutions by the state, but the Church had already been received under its powerful patronage’. This happened 1700 years ago, at the beginning of the 4^th century.”
—“Holy Emperor Constantine and the Edict of Milan: + Commemorating the 1700 Years Since the Edict of Milan of 313 +”

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HOLY EMPEROR CONSTANTINE AND THE EDICT OF MILAN: + COMMEMORATING THE 1700 YEARS SINCE THE EDICT OF MILAN OF 313 +