How To Use Constantine In A Sentence
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Anyway, as has already been stated and will now be seen, the evidence of his coins conclusively shows that the God to whom Constantine from first to last attributed his victories, was -- the Sun-God.
The Non-Christian Cross An Enquiry into the Origin and History of the Symbol Eventually Adopted as That of Our Religion
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Constantine shimmied until beads of perspiration gathered on his shiny forehead.
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Sergeant Caroline Constantine, 31, is currently on the bandmaster's course at the Royal Military School of Music at Kneller Hall.
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Optatianus Porphyrius mentions more than once the monogram of Christ, which he calls the celestial sign, in the panegyric of Constantine which he wrote in Latin verse, but not
A Philosophical Dictionary
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A Euro title cruiserweight clash took on gladiatorial overtones as it was staged on Piazza del Colosseo where the fourth-century Arch of Constantine served as a backdrop.
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In a recent article in the same journal that published Khachaturian's editorial, Constantine Lyketsos and others argue that "neuropsychiatric symptoms NPS are core features of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.
Michael Friedman, L.M.S.W.: Meet the Mental Health Needs of People With Dementia
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Faith, for Constantine, was a political matter; and any faith conducive to unity was treated with forbearance.
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Suddenly Constantine advanced and Alexander was driven back, parrying Constantine's attacks with his great sword.
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Right after our interview, she went back to the hotel and blogged about Constantine right on her website rosie. com and Rosie wrote quote, I just met him.
CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2005
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Constantine had conceived an especial affection for King Jerome; the king even carried his affection so far as to 'tutoy' him, and wished him to do the same.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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The altars of the basilicas erected by Constantine at Rome were surmounted by ciboria, one of which, in the Lateran, was known as a fastigium and is described with some detail in the "Liber Pontificalis".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Constantine still wears the International Hockey League championship ring from that season.
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Constantine had witnessed the unusual steadfastness, honesty and duty of the Christians, just as he had seen the horrors of persecution while with Diocletian and Galerius in the East.
Santa Elena, discoverer of the Holy Cross
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Valesius alleges several testimonies to confirm this character; to which I shall add the evidence of the presbyter Constantine, (A.D. 488,) who, in the life of St. Germain, calls the Armorican rebels mobilem et indisciplinatum populum.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Augustus: and so in Constantine's time, Eusebius brags he governed all the world, universum mundum praeclare admodum administravit, — et omnes orbis gentes
Anatomy of Melancholy
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In 323-4 civil war ended with the elimination of Licinius, and Constantine was at last sole ruler.
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My vote: Constantine Maroulis of American Idol infame for that very distinguished and clearly rebellious role.
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He knew her at once: three-masted barque, high bowsprit -- the Constantine.
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After the battle, Constantine adopted the labarum — ☧, a juxtaposition of the Greek letters chi (X) and rho (P) as a symbol for Christ — as his monogram.
Putting the X back in Christmas « Motivated Grammar
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The absence of the worker, through illness or death is sufficient to touch the prosiest workshop and tools with the hues of pathos, and it was with a swelling bosom that Lady Constantine passed through this arena of his youthful activities to the little chamber where he lay.
Two on a Tower
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Constantine makes a decree at first, Ten eleutherian zreskeias ouk arnetean einai, "that liberty of worship is not to be denied; and therefore the Christians, as others, should have liberty to keep the faith of their religion and heresy," Euseb.,
The Sermons of John Owen
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By the early 860s he was requesting a bishop successively from the papacy and the Byzantine emperor, and the latter démarche elicited the mission headed by Constantine-Cyril and Methodius.
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The official recognition of Christianity by Constantine I did not increase sympathy of the religion in Gaza.
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This is very thoughtful of Constantine," observed Denny, who was employing himself in cutting imaginary lemons in two with a fine damascened scimiter that he had taken from the wall.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896
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I think you maybe meant to say "Tilda Swinton was the the only gleam of light in the ambivalent putrescence of bad acting, choppy 'plot,' and butchered source material of 'Constantine.'
After the Relapse
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The basilica takes its name from John the Baptist and John the apostle, and also from the Laterani, the family of Constantine's wife, who donated the land on which the church stands.
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Near the patriarchate is the large Orthodox monastery (St. Constantine) with a printing press and hospice for pilgrims.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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Constantine recalled his mother and made her coruler.
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Constantine, after all that he had done in religious disputes, was still unbaptized.
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Alexander stood at the edge of the balcony for a moment, contemplating the quandary, intently observed by Constantine.
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At the end of dinner, King Constantine proposed the toast to the bride and bridegroom, then the dancing began.
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It is added that Constantine declared all the canons of Rome consuls and patricians — “patricios et consules effici” — that he himself held the bridle of the mare on which the new bishop was mounted — “tenentes frenum equi illius.”
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Constantine, I discovered on the edges of the pigmented spherical bodies in the blood of a patient suffering from malaria, filiform elements resembling flagellae which were moving very rapidly, displacing the neighbouring red cells.
Alphonse Laveran - Nobel Lecture
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From the beginning of the fourth century, when it was given to the pope by Constantine, the palace of the Lateran was the principal residence of the popes, and continued so for about a thousand years.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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With Brasília, Niemeyer seemed to have embraced, or at least acceded to, the worst aspect of architectural modernism — its antiseptic urban theory — and in the post-Brasília period, when his work has too often been hokily sculptural or frighteningly overscaled (see his University of Constantine in Algeria, or his Maison de la Culture in Le Havre), he seems to have forsaken its best aspects: the grace and lucidity born of its restraint.
A Vision in Concrete
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Benedictines.] * It does not appear that the establishment of the indiction is to be at tributed to Constantine: it existed before he had been created Augustus at Rome, and the remission granted by him to the city of Autun is the proof.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Constantine, after enjoying a short and anxious respite, was again besieged in his capital by the arms of a more formidable enemy.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Olga herself was baptized and became Constantine VII's god-daughter some time in the later 940s or 950s and probably only after being denied a full-blown Byzantine mission did she turn to Otto.
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Historical traces everywhere obviously: Constantine Mungu sports arena, four river eruptive fountains, Spanish steps and ladders.
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An important discovery from this layer, revealed by M. Waelkens's study of the coins found, was a follis (late coin type) minted under Heraclius and his son Heraclius Constantine between A.D.
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Marcellinus, or rather his continuator, (in Chron.,) casts a shade of premeditated assassination over the death of Constantine.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Moreover it is quite clear that while, as will be shown hereafter, the symbol of the cross had for ages been a Pagan symbol of Life, it can, as already stated, scarcely be said to have become a Christian _symbol_ before the days of Constantine.
The Non-Christian Cross An Enquiry into the Origin and History of the Symbol Eventually Adopted as That of Our Religion
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Jodd and the Northmen are the point of the spear, its handle is Constantine, and the hands that hold it are the
The Wanderer's Necklace
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Constantine's ancestry in the male line was Gaelic, like most Pictish kings in the 9th cent.
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At that time, Constantine created a completely new alphabet which corresponded to the Slavonic language.
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Now Constantine had had enough of their pagan attempts to frustrate his policies.
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Yet no consideration could dispense from the law of Constantine: the clergy, the senate, and the people, disapproved the conduct of
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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By officially endorsing Jesus as the Son of God, Constantine turned Jesus into a deity who existed beyond the scope of the human world, an entity whose power was unchallengeable.
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Latin.tom. v.p. 702) on the episcopal mitre of the popes, is ascribed to the gift of Constantine, or Clovis.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Constantine the Great knew no Greek and Justinian's accent was bad.
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Christianity was in ascendancy, and its power was secured when Constantine made it the official state religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century.
Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers
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Everyone's hair is greased up into a 50s do, which makes it hard to recognize Constantine and Bo, remade into Elvis-y toons.
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To further secure the relationship between the co-rulers of the empire, Maximianus placed Constantine in the household of Galerius, the Caesar of co-ruler Diocletian, where he was held hostage in the East as a pledge of his father's good conduct.
Santa Elena, discoverer of the Holy Cross
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Alexander extended his hand to Constantine and they shook, complimenting each other on their skill as swordsmen.
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Titus, Trajan, Antoninus, and Constantine still live to fame in unperishing records of marble.
Rome in the First and Nineteenth Centuries
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During the life of the empire, the term was reserved for Constantine's city, originally a Greek colony called Byzantion, whose inhabitants liked to vaunt their identity as "Byzantines.
The Glories of Byzantium
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What is significant, as Kee points out, is that the Roman Church assented to the role Constantine arrogated to himself.
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After the battle, Constantine adopted the labarum — ☧, a juxtaposition of the Greek letters chi (X) and rho (P) as a symbol for Christ — as his monogram.
Putting the X back in Christmas « Motivated Grammar
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A philosopher, his original name was Constantine but he became better known by his name in religion, Cyril, which he adopted on his deathbed.
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+ The sensible rhetorick of the dead, to exemplarity of good life, first admitted to the bones of pious men and martyrs within church walls, which in succeeding ages crept into promiscuous practice: while Constantine was peculiarly favoured to be admitted into the church porch, and the first thus buried in England, was in the days of Cuthred.
Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
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Constantine was declared to be Emperor by divine right.
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Publicius's substitution of the pineal gland for the vermis — an opinion held by the "ignorant and stupid," according to Galen (Lokhorst and Kaitaro, "Descartes 'Theory," 7) — is a notion that may be traced back through a translation by Constantine the African to Ibn al-Jazzar (900 – 980), whose views are otherwise consistent with Costa's.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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Was the art after Constantine's edict of toleration subtle propaganda for imperial power or did it reflect the orthodoxy emerging from the Christological debates and their conciliar resolution?
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Constantine I was the founder of the East Roman Empire, who was the first Roman Emporor that admitted and was converted to Christianity.
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Honestly, given the massive price tag ginned up by DOT, it's hard to blame Constantine.
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Constantine, the eldest of the Caesars, obtained, with a certain preeminence of rank, the possession of the new capital, which bore his own name and that of his father.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Love's expression was haughtier than Constantine's, but it too had a hint of melancholy.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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In Roman times, the Hermetic Teachings of the Gnostics and the early Christians were turned from philosophy into theology, thanks to Constantine.
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Hasdai ibn Shaprut, leader of Córdoba's Jewish community in the middle of the tenth century, was not only a great medical scholar but was also the chairman of the caliph's medical council; and when the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII sent the caliph a copy of Dioscorides 'De Materia Medica, the caliph sent for a Greek monk to help translate it into Arabic.
How Muslims Made Europe
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The altars of the basilicas erected by Constantine at Rome were surmounted by ciboria, one of which, in the Lateran, was known as a fastigium and is described with some detail in the "Liber Pontificalis".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Constantine I was the founder of the East Roman Empire, who was the first Roman Emporor that admitted and was converted to Christianity.
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Little do people know, the pagan Roman religion was "christianized" by the Roman emporer Constantine, many centuries ago.
Those Who Call Obama A Muslim
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Constantine was sitting at ease, his left elbow resting on an arm of the sedilium, his forefinger supporting his cheek, his cloak across his lap.
The Prince of India — Volume 01
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That Zosimus, who seems to have endeavored to diminish the glory of Constantine, has said nothing of it, is not surprising; but the silence appears very strange in the author of the panegyric of Constantine, pronounced in his presence at Trier; in which oration the panegyrist expresses himself in magnificent terms on all the war against Maxentius, whom this emperor had conquered.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Horn next explained how the lance eventually became the property of Maximianus Herculius, the third-century coruler of the divided Roman Empire, whose daughter Fausta married Constantine, the Roman king who would become the world’s first Christian emperor.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS
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And after last night, with her crying those huge, snotty tears over Constantine, she has to be gone.
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John Constantine tries to trick a demon, talks to the dead, and may finally find time to enjoy his duty-free whiskey.
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It has traditionally been argued that, after the Edict of Constantine in 314, there was a concerted programme to reconsecrate pagan temples as Christian churches.
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I shall never consent to the revocation of it, nor be persuaded to restore yourself to you again; for I shall esteem my properly in you more than the brevets or letters patents of Kjngs, or the donation of Constantine; and you shall be but a usu-fructuary of yourself.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical
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Procedure became uniform in the third century, while early in the fourth the differences of form were abolished by Constantine.
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Hey no worries, I really like Pyr books, the first one I purchased was Moorcock and Constantine's Silverheart in hardcover, the latest was Abercrombie's Before They are Hanged.
Adam Roberts
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The foundation of Waldensian belief was, therefore, in its claim to direct apostolic succession, which was justified historically as we have said in the Donation of Constantine, and practically in the apostolic lives of the perfecti.
HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
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Constantine; another told of justice finally done thy heroic father, and of thy prosperity; more lately a wandering monk, seeking solitude for his soul's sake, joined our community, and from him I hear that the old controversy with the Latins has broken out anew, and more hotly than ever; that the new Emperor is an _azymite_, and disposed to adhere to the compact of union of the churches east and west made with the Pope of Rome by his predecessor, leaving heart-blisters burning as those which divided the Jews.
The Prince of India — Volume 01
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What is significant, as Kee points out, is that the Roman Church assented to the role Constantine arrogated to himself.
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Constantine, is he not an author who, in this work, bears throughout the character of a panegyrist, rather than that of a historian?
A Philosophical Dictionary
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This issue came on the heels of a Grant Morrison/David Lloyd two-parter, which is decent but a bit pretentious and ultimately too standard a Constantine tale - he doesn't really help the situation, and someone close to him dies.
Comics You Should Own – Hellblazer #27 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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Alderman Constantine, a High Churchman, indignant at being passed over by a junior in the contest for the mayoralty, brought the matter before the Council Board, and produced an old by-law by which aldermen, according to their ancientry, were required to keep their mayoralty.
The Journal to Stella
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Mark Constantine, founder and co-owner of LUSH, concocted the nonsynthetic Flower Market perfume $40, in homage to Audrey Hepburn.
Avital Binshtock: Natural Beauty
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The nominal conversion of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great to Christianity indeed led to compromise and apostasy .
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Constantine has built his literary career by writing about crime in the decaying western Pennsylvania steel town of Rocksburg.
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Rivière, "La propag, du Christ. dans les trois premiers siècles", Paris, 1907), the historian Eusebius exhibits Christianity as vigorous and expansive in Italy previous to Constantine (see Fabricius, "Lux salutaris Evangelii"; Harnack, "Mission und Ausbreitung des
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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Constantine, as the barbarians of the Euxine, who in the preceding age had poured their armaments into the heart of the Mediterranean, soon desisted from the exercise of piracy, and despaired of forcing this insurmountable barrier.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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[Sidenote: _Polydor_.] to hir sonne the said Constantine, the which he caused to be closed within an image that represented his person, standing vpon a piller in the market place of Constantine, or (as some late writers haue) he caused it to be inclosed in a coffer of gold, adorned with rich stones and pearls, placing it in a church called Sessoriana, the which church he indued with manie great gifts and precious ornaments.
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Constantine Fighting the Lion" from a twelve-piece set, plus baldachin with dossal, of the Story of Constantine Design and cartoon by Pietro da Cortona, ca. 1636
'Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor'
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The first time I was in Yugoslavia, Constantine took me down to Macedonia so that I could give a broadcast about it, and when we arrived at Skoplje I thought I should have to run away because he had talked to me the whole time during the journey from Belgrade, which had lasted for twelve hours, and I had felt obliged to listen.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part V
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One author tries to link the oriflamme to Charlemagne's lance and through it all the way back to Constantine's labarum, which was taken from a pagan sanctuary located near modern Saint-Denis.
L'Oriflamme
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Emperor Constantine was said to visit the wise hermit for counsel.
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Constantine, a much-loved figure in Lancashire, was in great demand for public speaking, and he asked the new arrival to share the load.
Bowling Alone
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Procedure became uniform in the third century, while early in the fourth the differences of form were abolished by Constantine.
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i don't know if a hollywood film can do that, but i had hoped hbo or showtime would've been able to do it right - dexter is pretty damn darkly amazing. john constantine was already sacrificed to the demons of the visual medium ... must the same happen to our beloved cast of preacher?!?!
Sam Mendes to Direct Preacher | /Film
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The Nicene Creed, drafted by an 'oecumenical' conference of bishops under the auspices of Constantine himself, [1] was the last notable formulation of Ancient Greek philosophy.
The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
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The other story he tells us in his Life of Constantine: he brings in Constantine writing thus to him: "I think good to signify to your prudence, that you would take care that fifty volumes of those Scriptures, whose preparation and use you know so necessary for the church, and which beside may be easily read and carried about, may, by very skilful penmen, be written out in fair parchment.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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One of these, Learie Constantine, who became a renowned club professional in Lancashire, inspired James to think politically and, as James put it, cracked his shell of 19th-century intellectualism.
Bowling Alone
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As in the cemetery of St. Laurence and in that of St. Symphorosa, there arose here two basilicas, one built by Constantine (ad corpus), rediscovered in 1855, another in the fifth century; there remain yet some important relics of the former, an altar with its marble cancellus, or front, in which was opened a fenestella confessionis through which could be seen the bodies of the martyrs, the site of the schola cantorum in front of the altar, and in the apse the episcopal chair.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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He knew her at once: three-masted barque, high bowsprit -- the Constantine.
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8 Nicephorus, Michael Constantine Psellus eleventh-century Byzantine philosopher, no. 7, in The chaldaean Oracles of Zoroaster, ed.
Autobiographies
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Constantine I, baptized on his deathbed, was the first Christian Roman emperor.
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Before him, there was a jarring, ear-splitting rendition of "Unchained Melody" by Season 4's Constantine Maroulis.
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Beyond Hemlock Cove he saw the Constantine and its stranded bulk.
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But you haven't answered my two points either, they are inconvenient to your argument, one being that historically the "bible" as we know it was compiled at the order of Emperor Constantine and subsequently retranslated, re edited and revised frequently usually for political ends.
On Same-Sex Couples and Catfish Derbies
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Constantine I is the eponym for Constantinople
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In the 4th century, Roman Emperor Constantine the Great converted to Christianity and created a Christian empire, prompting the building of many new churches.
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Constantine's conversion had been very welcome, but had not introduced the millennium.
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With Brasília, Niemeyer seemed to have embraced, or at least acceded to, the worst aspect of architectural modernism — its antiseptic urban theory — and in the post-Brasília period, when his work has too often been hokily sculptural or frighteningly overscaled (see his University of Constantine in Algeria, or his Maison de la Culture in Le Havre), he seems to have forsaken its best aspects: the grace and lucidity born of its restraint.
A Vision in Concrete
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When Constantine and I had been in Skoplje the previous Easter he had taken me to a night club in the Moslem quarter.
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV
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But when Maximin acquainted him that he had been saluted Augustus by the army, Galerius was obliged to acknowledge him as well as Constantine, as equal associates in the Imperial dignity.]
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Procedure became uniform in the third century, while early in the fourth the differences of form were abolished by Constantine.
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However, when Constantine the Great became emperor in 306, he legalized Christianity and made it the official religion of the Roman Empire.
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She had even said "Chut, chut," to Mrs. Constantine.
The Captives
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The "truth about your origins" is (get ready for it) a plot by Emperor Constantine!
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