Saint Helena (330)

There is no more loved or remembered royal woman among the saints than Saint Helena (also called Helen, Eleanor, Ellen, Eileen, Elaine) who was an empress and the mother of Constantine the Great. She became a Christian in 313. It was Saint Helena who discovered the True Cross in Jerusalem in 326, four years before she died. She built churches on Mount Calvary, at Bethlehem and in the little town of Fostat in Egypt where the Holy Family went in flight when Jesus was a Child.

The Vision Of Saint Helena (1580), by Paolo Veronese (source)

The Vision Of Saint Helena (1580), by Paolo Veronese (source)