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Message:: [QUOTE="LaCointessa, post: 2871779, member: 87186"]Excuse me, you know I'm just learning about these people from the past; but, I was doing some research on Constantine and his mother, Helena because I want to write something for CT about Helena and show my coins related to her and her son and even Constantine's father. Constantine's mother is purported to have identified the cross upon which the Christ was said to have been crucified, also known as "the true cross." It is said that there were three crosses found in the place where the Prophet Jesus was  crucified and in order to find out which was the one they wanted to preserve, they brought a deathly ill lady near to each cross and when she came near to one of them - the last, I suppose, she was miraculously cured of her illness. Constantine underwrote his mom's expeditions all over the place and she built lots of churches putting all the relics she discovered in them.  He apparently adored her to bits, and she him. I didn't even know what a Chi-Rho was until I read this thread today but, having read about their relationship and how dedicated Constantine was to his mother (who converted to Christianity - I don't know from what - Paganism?), it doesn't surprise me that Constantine would be the first to make the Chi-Rho (symbolizing Christ and the cross his mother found and recovered for posterity) the symbol for his military standard, shield and such.[/QUOTE]