Pope Miltiades
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Pope Miltiades, also known as Melchiades the African, was the bishop of Rome from 311 to his death on 10 or 11 January 314. It was during his pontificate that Emperor Constantine the Great issued the
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Flavia Maxima Fausta
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Flavia Maxima Fausta Augusta was a Roman empress. She was the daughter of Maximian and second wife of Constantine the Great, who had her executed and excluded from all official accounts for unknown re
Pope Miltiades
…Constantine the Great issued the Edict of Milan (313), giving Christianity legal status within the Roman Empire. The pope also received the palace of Empress Fausta where the Lateran Palace, the papal seat and residence of the papal administration, would be built. At the Lateran Council, during the schism with the…
Possible portrait of Fausta, Louvre
Fausta, as Salus, holding her two sons, Constantine II and Constantius II