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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Black Friar, post: 3090381, member: 76221&quot;]Regarding the eyes to heaven.&nbsp; His mother Helena was a Christian. She did all she could to convert him.&nbsp; Bear in mind, soldiers of the Empire were devotee&#039;s of Mithras&#039; cult; they already believed in the one god idea. The feast day of Mithras was December 25: Christmas anyone?&nbsp; So many Roman political units were adopted by the Holy See and early Church: parish, curia, diocese and more were adopted by the Church as administrative titles as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>According to oral history/legend the reason he did&#039;t convert until his death bed was because he delayed his official conversion was that he felt he had too much &quot;work&quot;, read-<i>kill</i>- a lot of folks and he wanted to wait till he was done with expanding and consolidating his power to become baptized.&nbsp; Death bed definitely qualifies as being done.</p><p><br /></p><p>Incidentely, the first Christian church was built by his mother in Jerusalem.&nbsp; Until then Christians worshiped in homes, caves and other hidden spaces.&nbsp; The Edict of Nantes by Constantine granted Christians the ability to worship in the open and have the same rights as all Roman citizens to worship whom they wanted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nike became an angel, and other imperial symbols were adopted by the early Church and Christianized.&nbsp; The emperors title of Pontifex Maximus is still the title of the Popes.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Ah history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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