Christian publicity: Constantine the pagan imperator

This essay has took information from a very beautiful biography on Constantine(a.Ch.280-337)(A. Barbero, Constantine the winner), Roman imperator that usually is always identified to the Christian cult; naturally it is alone the Christian publicity, that precisely is from Eusebius of Cesarean(a.Ch.265-339), that has descripted Constantine as a Christian imperator, but the major document of Constantine imperator, this is the triumphal arc, lacking of the Christian symbols, the cross for the first, instead is very much present the symbol of the Sun, that is present also in the coin, that are coined during the empire of Constantine, as Barbero has documented, and the archeology, particularly the numismatic science; hence this adherence to Christian wasn’t never, anyway we can read and laugh about the publicity of Eusebius, that is ridiculous; anyway he said: “(Constantine) Ordered that a build of a church in Jerusalem on the holy town of resurrection of Christ…”; I would know who has indicated to Constantine the town of resurrection, because he not has never believed to Christ, and why he has wanted the building of a Christian church if he wasn’t Christian? Eusebius would answers: “Because it is the publicity alone, but the cockups of Eusebius continue: “(Constantine) wanted also the building of a home of prayer”, usually the home of prayer in the Christian religion and in every religion is the town of cult, the churches, mosque or temples, and where now this home of prayer? At last the archeological ruins would be been found. Eusebius continues: “The holy sepulcher was hide under the waste and the Pagan idols…”; it is more laughable because the holy sepulcher today we haven’t found, but Eusebius known where it was, but he as the town of resurrection didn’t indicate where is; these are alone the legends that the Christian writers has used for to hold the Christianity of Constantine, hence we can laugh about these legends and we can tie it to the historical context. The description of this church, where was the sacrifice of Christ, is so synthetic that we would have problems not alone to find the church but for to find the description, because it isn’t: “It(the church) the first monument that, as the acme of the building the magnificence of imperator he has decorated through the excellent columns and other ornaments, and he has produced very much ornaments…”; the question is always the same: “Where is this church?”, because the precise indication aren’t; but a summary description of this church gives to us a indication very precise, the pagan architecture: “It walked to an area very great, floored with lucid stone and surrounded on the three sides from the long arcades”; it is the description, although summary, of a pagan temple that on the sides has the arcades, and the description of the ingress: “It walked to an area very great…”; is took from the home of some governor of other noble home where was the “vestibulum”, the was the space between the principal door and the home, that usually was broad; this description is summary and fanciful; but the important matter was alone the publicity.

Alessandro Lusana