Often, when congratulating a person on his birthday, many call him the birthday man, and the very day of his birth - name day. But this is not always correct, because the birthday does not always coincide with the name day. In the old days it was customary to call a newborn according to the Church calendar: the choice of a name depended on the day of which saint he was born.
And in our time, children are called mainly in honor of close relatives or idols, and sometimes parents choose a fashionable name for a baby or just a beautiful and euphonious name from their point of view. How to find out, in this case, the day of your name day and, accordingly, your heavenly patron? Let's consider this on the example of when the birthday of Konstantinov is celebrated.

Constantine the Great - an exemplary Christian ruler

The name Constantine is associated in the Christian namebook with many saints. The most famous among them is Constantine the Great - the Roman emperor, revered in the face of the Equal-to-the-Apostles along with his mother Helen. Emperor Constantine the Great is best known for legalizing Christianity after hundreds of years of persecution. He renamed Byzantium Constantinople, making this city the Christian capital of the Roman Empire. True, Christianity did not become the state religion then, but under Constantine the Great it was the dominant religion, thanks to which Christians were finally able to profess their faith openly. Constantine was declared by historians to be an exemplary Christian ruler, and it was for this that he was named the Great.

Constantine himself was baptized already being practically on his deathbed. He was buried in the Apostolic Church in the city of Constantinople.

The parishioners of the Orthodox Church honor his memory as a saint and equal to the apostles. Name Day is celebrated on June 3.

June 3 - name days of Elena, Constantine

This date is best known. By the way, on the day of June 3, not only Constantine himself is revered, but also Elena. Both the temples erected on this date and the temple feast are named by both of these names. One of the Bulgarian resorts, located six kilometers from the city of Varna, also bears the names of Saints Constantine and Helena.

The famous island of St. Helena (to which Napoleon was exiled) was also named after this particular Helena, since it was opened just on the day of the saint's memory.

Elena - mother of Constantine

Celebrating the name day of Constantine and Helena on June 3, some mistakenly believe that they are spouses. In fact, Elena is his mother. This woman was of a simple family. In her youth, she helped her father, who worked at a horse station, worked in a tavern as a servant. There she met her future husband, Constantius Chlorus, who became Caesar of the Roman Empire under Maximian Herculia. Then the future emperor Constantine was born in this family.

Having thus become a queen, Helen did many good deeds. At her command, Christian churches were built. And the Emperor Constantine himself ordered the erection of a temple to the glory of the Resurrection of Christ.

Other saints Constantine

The Roman emperor Constantine the Great was so popular that the eleven emperors of Rome and Byzantium were named after him in subsequent times.

And in Russia in the XII-XIV centuries, after the adoption of Orthodoxy, many famous historical figures also bore this name. For example, Konstantin Vsevolodovich - Prince Vladimirsky, Konstantin Vasilyevich - Prince of Suzdal, another Konstantin Vasilyevich - Prince of Rostov, and also Konstantin Mikhailovich - Prince of Tverskoy and many others. This is probably why modern Constantines have so many days on which they celebrate name days.

Name day of Constantine according to the church calendar

These name days are celebrated many times throughout the year. Here are a few of them.

Name days of various saints Constantine are also celebrated on June 15 and 21, July 8, 14 and 16, August 11 and 17, September 16, October 2 and 15, November 4, 23 and 27, and December 11. The names of the saints whose name days are celebrated on these days can be found in the Orthodox Church calendar.

How to define your Constantine day

In order to find out the name day of Constantine, which is suitable for a particular Kostya, you need to find the day of remembrance of the saint with the same name, the closest to the date of his birth. In principle, the day when a person's name day is celebrated, including the name day of Constantine, is determined by the date following the birthday, and not the one preceding it, even if the latter is closer to the date of birth.

For example, the Konstantinos, who were born after December 11 and before January 8, have a name day, respectively, on January 8, and their heavenly patron is the Monk Constantine of Sinadsky. Born after January 8 and before February 27, Kostya celebrate the name day on February 27 and consider the Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine Moravian as their patron.

March 18, the day of Prince Konstantin Yaroslavsky, you need to celebrate the name day of Constantine, who was born between February 27 and March 18, and so on, using the dates of the above church calendar.

By the same principle, people with any name can determine their name day.

When is your name day?

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38. Saint Helena - mother of Constantine

The brightest, most understanding and most helpful person in the life of Emperor Constantine was his mother, Helen. Unfortunately, we know practically nothing about the life of mother Constantine, about her youth, about her stay in the imperial court, but we know about her great ascetic deeds that had a tremendous impact on the further history of the Church. In this respect, the mother of Constantine is a striking contrast to very many people living in the era of her son, in whose biographies we are forced to delve into only because they somehow crossed paths with Constantine. How many ridiculous and accurate details we know from the completely mediocre and gloomy life of some Maximians, Galeriyevs, Makentsiev, Maksiminov, Litsiniev, in whose place one could easily put any other person who, perhaps, could not cope with his power, but at least not bringing so much grief to other people or leaving behind anything that would cause a moment's admiration or just a pleasant surprise. And while Konstantin had to deal with such people all the time, sorting out and pacifying their passions, his holy mother lived next to him, apparently quietly and imperceptibly, otherwise we would probably have learned much more about her, but she helped him so much in the most important matter of his life, that their names are now inextricably linked in the memory of the Ecumenical Church.

The future Flavia Julia Elena Augusta was born about 250 in the city of Drepan in Bithynia, on the shores of the Nicomedian Gulf, near the city of Byzantium. At the behest of Constantine, after the death of her mother, her hometown will be named Helenopolis. Historians argue about the exact date of birth of Elena, which ranges from 248 to 257, but in most cases it is customary to indicate 250.

We know about its origin from the "Word on the Death of Emperor Theodosius the Great", written by the Father of the Church, Ambrose of Mediolansky, where he called her "stabularia", that is, the hostess of the inn. In 270, Helen meets with the commander Constantius and becomes his wife, and according to the Church Father Jerome of Stridon, she was his concubine, that is, an unmarried girlfriend. Also, there is no consensus about when Elena's son Constantine was born from Constantius in the city of Naissa (now the city of Nis). In the historical literature, you can find various options from 270 to 275, but the most conventional date is 272. As we remember, in the year 293, upon receiving the title of Caesar, Constantius Chlorus separated from Helen in order to marry the stepdaughter of Emperor Maximian Herculius Theodora, the mother of all Constantine's brothers and sisters. In all likelihood, Helen lived all the time in Nicomedia, until in 306, after the death of Constantius Chlorus, her son Constantine took her to him. At this time, the main residence of Constantine and, accordingly, the real capital of Gaul was the city of Trevir (Trier), which is otherwise called even the northern capital of the Roman Empire. Elena had her own palace in Trevira. In 318, as the mother of the emperor, Helen received the title of Nobilissima Femina, that is, "noble woman." We can find this signature on coins with its image, minted already that year in Thessaloniki. When in 324 Constantine became the sole emperor, his mother henceforth receives the title of Augusta and, as Eusebius of Caesarea writes, “Constantine gave her the right to use the royal treasury at her own will and dispose of everything as she wants and as it seems best to her (Biography 3, 47). We can judge Elena's possessions in Rome, because as soon as she had the opportunity to help her son build the Empire, she was engaged in construction a lot, leaving a big mark in the history of architecture - she owned the Laurentian estate, her Sessorian palace and buildings on the Labican road are known ...

We know for sure that Helen converted to Christianity, but we do not know when this happened.

It can be assumed that she was Christian from an early age, and then this could explain the benevolent attitude towards the Church of her husband Constance and son Constantine. On the other hand, if Helen raised Constantine in Christianity, then he might not have had the religious evolution that we have been observing all his life. But in any case, we know that sooner or later Elena was baptized and did more for the Church than all the women of her era. If you do not consider Constantine himself to be the main work of her life, then they are left with her unbearable contribution to the restoration and construction of Christian shrines, primarily associated with her pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Discovery by Constantine christianity as a worldview inevitably involved creation christianity as a culture... In practice, this creation meant filling existing cultural forms with Christian meanings and a kind of revision of the entire Greco-Roman historiosophy from a biblical perspective. From now on, the center of the world is not Rome, but Jerusalem, and the world itself is not the Roman Empire, but all of humanity, baptized and awaiting its baptism. It does not follow from this that Rome and the Empire are losing their significance, on the contrary, they finally acquire it as the earthly supports of the Universal Church. In the historiosophical plane, this acquisition requires breaking the cyclical understanding of the time of pagan myths into an irreversible line of world history, which has a beginning and an end and at one stage of which the Son of God is incarnated, at another stage Constantine is born, at the third - you and I, etc. The events of Christian history take place in a specific time and specific space, and therefore space and time itself in Christianity becomes concrete, and not abstract mythological.

Elena was about 75 years old when, in the words of Eusebius, “with the speed of a young man hurried to the East” to acquire the relics of the times of Christ and build churches in the Holy Land. Elena's pilgrimage expedition was a matter of national importance - its task was actually the reopening of Jerusalem, in which the memory of Christ was destroyed in all possible ways.

Recall that in 70 AD Jerusalem was destroyed by the army of the emperor Vespasian under the leadership of his son Titus. From that moment on, the city fell into great desolation, and in 123 the emperor Hadrian razed the city to the ground and began to rebuild it as a Roman city called Elia Capitolina. The name combined the name of Elia Hadrian himself and the name of Capitoline Jupiter, to whom the emperor built a temple on the site of the former Jerusalem temple. But Constantine ordered the return of the historical name holy city, and this gesture symbolized the beginning of a new era in the history of the entire Greco-Roman world. Eusebius writes: “Traveling all over the East with regal splendor, she showered with innumerable benefits both the population of cities in general, and in particular everyone who came to her; her right hand generously rewarded the troops, helped the poor and the helpless very much. For some she provided a cash allowance, for others she supplied an abundance of clothing to cover their nakedness, she freed others from the shackles, relieved them of hard work in the mines, ransomed them from lenders, and returned some from captivity. " (Biography, 3, 44). Also Socrates Scholasticus speaks of Elena's extraordinary modesty. “According to the description of Socrates the Scholastic,“ she was so devout that she prayed, standing in a row of wives and virgins inscribed in the canon of churches, invited them to her table and, serving them herself, brought food to the table. She also gave many gifts to churches and poor people ”(Church History, 1,17).

A significant event in the history of the Church was Helena's discovery of the Cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified.

In Jerusalem, Helen saw a city full of pagan temples, where it was almost impossible to find the relics of the era of Christ, but after diligent research, she recognized the site of Golgotha \u200b\u200band began excavations. Church tradition says that Helen found three crosses, on one of which Christ was to be crucified, but to clarify this issue he had to show his miraculous, life-giving power. After that, Empress Helena and Bishop Macarius I of Jerusalem erected this Cross, for all to see, on Calvary. Together with the Cross, Helen found four nails with which they nailed the body of Christ, and a tablet on which Pontius Pilate wrote the abbreviation "INRI", which stands for "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews" (Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum) (John 19: 19-22) ... As is clear from the Gospel, Pilate wrote these abbreviations not only in Latin, but also in Hebrew and Greek. The Orthodox Church celebrates the day of the finding of the Holy Cross of the Lord and of nails by the holy queen Helen on March 6 (March 19 to the present). Elena guessed that the place of the Holy Sepulcher should be not far from the discovery of the Holy Cross, and continued her search. At this time, Constantine ordered to cleanse Jerusalem of pagan temples, many of which were built on a specially poured mountain. The emperor ordered not only to remove the idols, but also to tear down the mounds themselves. In fact, Constantine cleared the city of Adrian's heritage. In the process of tearing down the next embankment of the Temple of Venus ("the voluptuous demon of love", as Eusebius writes), they suddenly discovered an absolutely empty space in the depths of the earth, which turned out to be the place of the Holy Sepulcher.

After this significant discovery, Constantine ordered to build a huge temple in honor of the Resurrection of the Lord throughout this space. It took ten years to build the great temple. On September 13, 335, on the site of Golgotha \u200b\u200band the Holy Sepulcher, a large newly-built Church of the Resurrection was consecrated, and the next day the Cross acquired by Helen was placed in it, and therefore the day of September 14 (September 27 to the present) in the Orthodox calendar became the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.

In addition to the Church of the Resurrection of the Lord, Elena founded the Church of the Nativity of Christ in Bethlehem; the temple of Christ and the apostles Peter, James and John on Mount Tabor, where these three apostles saw the Transfiguration of Christ; the temple of the Ascension of Christ on the Mount of Olives; Temple of the Twelve Apostles by Lake Tiberias; the temple of the Holy Family in Gethsemane; the temple over the tomb of Lazarus in Bethany; the temple at the Mamre oak in Hebron, where the Lord appeared to Abraham; the temple of the prophet Elijah at the site of his ascension and many others. In total, Elena founded more than 80 churches in the Holy Land.

Konstantin's mother died in 330, at the age of 80. Eusebius writes that she “Ended her life in the presence, in the eyes and in the arms of such a great son who served her”,therefore, there is reason to believe that it happened in Trier. The emperor transported her body to Rome, where she was solemnly buried on the Labican road outside the Aurelian walls. The Church canonized Elena as equal to the Apostles, since her service to God in its significance was equal to the missionary feat of the holy Apostles.

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1. Saints Equal to the Apostles Constantine and Helena are not husband and wife, but son and mother.
2. Saint Constantine was baptized at the very end of his life.

In the 4th century, the custom was widespread to postpone the performance of the sacrament for an indefinite time, in the expectation of receiving the remission of all sins with the help of baptism accepted at the end of life. Emperor Constantine, like many of his contemporaries, followed this custom.

In early 337 he went to Helenopolis to use the baths. But, feeling worse, he ordered to be transported to Nicomedia and in this city he was baptized on his deathbed. Before his death, having gathered the bishops, the emperor confessed that he dreamed of being baptized in the waters of the Jordan, but by the will of God he accepts it here.

3. Empress Helen was of a simple family.

Modern historians believe that Elena helped her father at the horse station, poured wine for travelers who were waiting for the harnessing and transfer of horses, or simply worked as a servant in a tavern. There, apparently, she met Constantius Chlorus, under Maximian Herculia, who became the Caesar of the Western Roman Empire. In the early 270s, she became his wife.

4. The Roman Catholic Church did not include the name of Emperor Constantine in the calendar, but the Western bishops relied on his authority when trying to gain supreme power in the Church and in Europe in general.

The basis for such claims was the "Gift of Constantine" - a fake donation act of Constantine the Great to Pope Sylvester.

The "letter" says that Constantine the Great, when he was baptized by Pope Sylvester and when he was healed from leprosy, which he was struck with before, presented the Pope with signs of imperial dignity, a Lateran palace, the city of Rome, Italy and all Western countries. He transferred his residence to the eastern countries on the grounds that the head of the empire does not deserve to live where the head of the religion resides; finally, the pope was granted the supremacy over the four cathedra - Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem and Constantinople - and over all Christian churches throughout the universe.

The fact of forgery was proved by the Italian humanist Lorenzo della Valla in his work "On the Gift of Constantine" (1440), published in 1517 by Ulrich von Hutten. In Rome, this document was completely abandoned only in the 19th century.

5. Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity, but did not make it the state religion.

In 313, Emperor Constantine issued an Edict of Milan proclaiming religious tolerance in the territory of the Roman Empire. The immediate text of the edict has not reached us, but it is quoted by Lactantius in his work On the Death of the Persecutors.

In accordance with this edict, all religions were equal in rights, thus, traditional Roman paganism lost its role as an official religion. The edict especially distinguishes Christians and provides for the return to Christians and Christian communities of all property that was taken from them during the persecution.

The edict also provides for compensation from the treasury to those who took possession of property previously owned by Christians and were forced to return this property to its previous owners.

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6. The Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross appeared in the church calendar thanks to the activities of Saints Constantine and Helena.

In 326, at the age of 80, Queen Helena went to the Holy Land in order to find and visit places consecrated by the most important events in the life of the Savior. She undertook excavations at Calvary, where, having excavated a cave, in which, according to legend, Jesus Christ was buried, she found the Life-giving Cross.

The Exaltation is the only holiday that began at the same time as the event itself, to which it is dedicated. The First Exaltation was celebrated at the very discovery of the Cross in the Jerusalem Church, that is, in the IV century. And the fact that this holiday was soon (in 335) connected with the consecration of the magnificent Church of the Resurrection, built by Constantine the Great on the site of the very discovery of the Cross, made this holiday one of the most solemn of the year.

7. A number of churches were built in the Holy Land thanks to Empress Elena.

The earliest historians (Socrates Scholastic, Eusebius Pamphilus) report that during her stay in the Holy Land, Helen founded three churches at the sites of evangelical events.

• on Calvary - the Church of the Holy Sepulcher;
• in Bethlehem - the Basilica of the Nativity of Christ;
• on the Mount of Olives - a church over the place of the Ascension of Christ;

The Life of Saint Helena, written later, in the 7th century, contains a more extensive list of buildings, which, in addition to those already listed, includes:

• in Gethsemane - the Church of the Holy Family;
• in Bethany - a church over the tomb of Lazarus;
• in Hebron - the church at the Mamre oak, where God appeared to Abraham;
• by Lake Tiberias - the Temple of the Twelve Apostles;
• on the site of the ascension of Elijah - a temple in the name of this prophet;
• on Mount Tabor - a temple in the name of Jesus Christ and the apostles Peter, James and John;
• at the foot of Mount Sinai, near the Burning Bush, there is a church dedicated to the Mother of God and a tower for monks.

8. The city of Constantinople (now Istanbul) was named after Saint Constantine, who transferred the capital of the Roman Empire there.

Having abandoned paganism, Constantine did not leave ancient Rome, which was the center of a pagan state, as the capital of the empire, but moved his capital to the east, to the city of Byzantium, which was renamed Constantinople.

9. One of the oldest Bulgarian resorts on the Black Sea coast bears the name of Saints Constantine and Helena. It is located 6 kilometers northeast of the city of Varna.

In addition to the usual entertainment centers, hotels and sports facilities, the complex houses a chapel that was once part of a monastery built in honor of Emperor Constantine and his mother, Empress Helena. Even before the Bulgarians, this coast was inhabited by the Greeks. The entire surrounding area was a colony of the Byzantine Empire and was called Odessos.

10. The island of Saint Helena, to which Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled, is also named after the mother of Saint Constantine. It was discovered by the Portuguese navigator João da Nova during his journey home from India on May 21, 1502, the day of the memory of this saint.

The Portuguese found the island uninhabited, with plenty of fresh water and timber. The sailors brought domestic animals (mainly goats), fruit trees, vegetables, built a church and a couple of houses, but they did not establish a permanent settlement. Since its opening, the island has become critical for ships returning from Asia to Europe. In 1815, Saint Helena became the place of exile for Napoleon Bonaparte, who died there in 1821.

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The Orthodox Church honors the memory of the ruler of the Roman Empire, Equal-to-the-Apostles Tsar Constantine and his mother, Queen Helena, on June 3 every year. Raised by a Christian mother and a father who does not allow the persecution of adherents of the Christian religion, Constantine, from childhood, absorbed a special respect for the faith. Having become a ruler, he directed all his efforts so that the freedom of the confession of faith in Christ was proclaimed in all countries subject to him.

Queen Helena, the mother of Constantine, also did a huge number of good deeds for the Church, she built temples and, at the insistence of her son, even brought from Jerusalem the very Life-giving Cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified, for which she was also awarded the title of Equal to the Apostles.

A beautiful day of kindness and peace -
Saints Helena, Constantine.
They gave light all their lives
They prayed for less troubles for everyone.

Let's help
Wish each other well.
And maybe on a holy and clear day,
The world will become a little more beautiful.

On this day, Elena,
We sincerely want to wish
Fast, fun, with enthusiasm
Eliminate all adversity.

For happiness to fill
Your days are all to the brim
Well, and everything that I dreamed of
It would be performed without words.

Today we glorify Constantine,
And the mother is the wonderful Elena.
Their faith, strength, kindness
For centuries, they have been incorruptible.

May the saints help you
When there is no other hope.
May keep you from sorrow
From pain, sorrow and troubles.

On Saint Helena's Day, on the Feast of Constantine
Let joy rush to your beautiful home.
The whole picture will become more fun than life,
To stay like that forever later!

I congratulate you and wish you happiness,
Faith in souls is sacred, to keep carefully,
To make everything work out fine,
You live in good, comfort, glorious world!

On the Day of Constantine and Helena
I will tell you a couple of kind phrases:
Love and happiness are precious
Let the Saints keep you!

Prosperity, peace and happiness to you
I wish you a saint on this day!
May this joyful date
Will present you with a dream!

Constantine and Elena
Today we remember.
You health and good
I wish you this day.

May the saints protect
They will give you strength.
With their intercession of troubles
Don't be hit.

On the day of Helena and Constantine
Kindness will reign around!
After all, for every Christian
This holiday has always been important!

I wish you peace and light,
So that good dreams come true!
May hearts be warmed with happiness!
I wish everyone cleanliness in the soul!

Happy Saint Helena, Constantine,
Saints, beautiful women, men.
Let the rest on this day
There will be strength to overcome all troubles.

Do not know any difficult life barriers,
Do not know longing, sorrow, sadness and loss,
Let the spring of life spout with a key,
Let every new moment be wonderful.