Posted by Beaver II [Beaver] on November 01, 1999 at 12:45:48 {2gTL9dbN6kS2pgVcL2CgJusvla2o4k}:
In Reply to: *First Christian Emperor posted by mntzion on November 01, 1999 at 07:49:42:
All I have been able to find is a quote from the "Outline of History" by HG Wells:
Chrosoes II.........carried off a cross, said to be the true cross on which Jesus was crucified, to his capital, Ctesiphon. (But this or some other true cross already got to Rome. It had been brought from Jerusalem, it was said, by the "Empress Helena," the idealized and canonized mother of Constantine--a story for which Gibbon displayed small respect. :) (Smiley face added)
I have read a similar story somewhere else but can't find it.