🇹🇷 🇮🇹 🇻🇦 Saint Helen Feast: 18 August

 

   Saint Helen
Queen ( c 330 Anno Domini A.D. )                     Feast: 18 August

Helen was a Turkish commoner (& probably not a British princess). She became Empress of Rome  At first, she was not a Christian. But she was a good woman. So soon Our Lord gave her the gift of faith. Her strongest son was named Constantine . He was a pagan, too.

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https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/9154028

https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07202b.htm

https://gab.com/adagioforstrings/posts/110906623860846365

But when Constantine saw his Mother become a Christian , he started thinking. When Helen was 80 years old, she went to Jerusalem  She wanted to find the Cross on which Our Lord died. She found 3 crosses buried in Mount Calvary. But when the Cross of Our Lord touched a very sick woman, at once the woman was cured    Later, Helen's son was fighting his strongest enemy. He remembered the Cross his Mother loved  He promised to become a Christian if he won.

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https://youtu.be/F1H-qrRYCAg

https://gab.com/adagioforstrings/posts/110906860155909508

Constantine did win. And the Cross  became the sign of victory for all the world. So St. Helen by her prayers  & example made her son, Constantine , the first Christian ruler of the world.

#SaintHelen #PrayForUs 

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https://youtu.be/0vGNUfK6wUU

https://gab.com/adagioforstrings/posts/110906949661083652