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Discovering Constantine and Helena in Trier

What do the following all have in common: the word “soldier“, the city name Istanbul, Sunday as a day of rest, the location of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, “of one Being with the Father” in the Nicene Creed? Or the Chi Rho (XP, the first two letters of “Christ”), the location of the Hagia Sophia or St. Peter’s in Rome, but also of the largest Christian church from Antiquity, the then Trier Cathedral? What do an arch and a donation have in common?

They all go back to Constantine.

But what does Constantine have to do with Trier?

Trier was the residence of his father, Constantius Chlorus, from AD 293 to 306 and was Constantine’s residence from 306 to 312. It was his preferred place to stay up to 316. He probably visited in 321 and certainly in 328, perhaps even up to the spring of 329.Trier was the residence of his mother, the Dowager Empress Helena.

Both have left their traces in Trier.

Let us follow in their footsteps.