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The Semiology of God
abracadabra 2005.07.17 16:59
said area (cemberlitas) was used as a necrepolis with colums lining up to street. last 50 years there has been many tombs found in the area between 8 to 10 meters deep.so it is very possible helena's obelisk stood there among other royalty.
the cross under constantine's is most likely a marytr gold. but i tell you, each time i am near cemberlitas, even the idea of the holy cross buried there, gives me goose bumps.
also,
'Her greatest fame, Helena acquired by an act for which she was probably not responsible, i.e. the finding of the True Cross. Her presence in Jerusalem and the description Eusebius presented of her stay in the Holy Land led ultimately to connecting Helena with the discovery of the Cross.'
the question remains;
was helena buried in rome or konstantinepoli?
The Semiology of God
Rita Novel 2005.07.17 17:22
Helena was buried at Rome a day of two before 3 August 326, subsequent to her death 25 July 326, probably at Naples.
I have spent a good deal of time over the last six years gathering multitudinous data relative to the life of Helena, so single quotations mean very little to me. There are a lot of contradictions within modern Helena scholarship, and it has been exactly the contradictions that I have striven to understand and hopefully ultimately resolve.
One major aspect of the Helena's legend which has eluded modern scholarship is that a law of silence regarding Helena and the Cross was in force when Eusebius wrote of Helena in the Holy Land within his Life of Constantine (337). Ambrose, bishop of Milan, broke the silence regarding Helena and the Cross in his Obit Theodosi, the Obituary of Emperor Theodosius (395). The law of silence regarding Helena and the Cross was suggested immediately after the death of Helena to Constantine by Eutropia, and the reason for this law was so that overall power would stay within the Imperial ranks, rather than go to the Christian priesthood which then had a new sign, the True Cross, to confirm its power.
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