Saint Helena

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Saint Helena is a Christian saint traditionally credited with finding the True Cross and known as the mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great.

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Label Occurrences
Saint Helena canonical 19
St. Helena 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian saint
Empress of the Roman Empire
historical figure
alsoKnownAs Helena Augusta
surface form: Flavia Iulia Helena

Saint Helena of Constantinople
surface form: Helena of Constantinople

Saint Helen
appointedAugustaBy Constantine I
surface form: Constantine the Great
associatedWith Christianization of the Roman Empire
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
imperial court of Constantinople
surface form: Constantinopolitan imperial court

discovery of the True Cross in Jerusalem
birthDate c. 246
c. 250
birthPlace Asia Minor
Bithynia
Drepanum
burialPlace tomb of Empress Helena
surface form: Mausoleum of Helena

Rome
canonizationStatus pre-congregation saint
child Constantine I
surface form: Constantine the Great
creditedWith finding the True Cross
deathDate c. 330
deathPlace Nicomedia (traditionally)
surface form: Nicomedia
era Late Antiquity
surface form: Late Roman Empire
feastDay 18 August
19 August
21 May
gender female
iconography often depicted holding a cross
often depicted wearing imperial robes
influenced Christian pilgrimage traditions
knownFor building churches in Palestine
pilgrimage to the Holy Land
languageOfName Latin
motherOf Constantine I
surface form: Constantine the Great
name Helena
patronage archaeologists
difficult marriages
divorced people
empresses
religion Christianity
spouseOf Constantius Chlorus
title Augusta
veneratedIn Anglican Communion
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
surface form: Eastern Orthodox Church

Lutheranism
surface form: Lutheran Churches

Oriental Orthodoxy
surface form: Oriental Orthodox Churches

Roman Catholicism
surface form: Roman Catholic Church

Referenced by (20)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mount St. Helena namedAfter Saint Helena
Monastery of the Cross hasChapelDedicatedTo Saint Helena
this entity surface form: St. Helena
Île Sainte-Hélène namedAfter Saint Helena
Stavrovouni Monastery foundedBy Saint Helena
Meskel (Finding of the True Cross) associatedWith Saint Helena
subject surface form: Meskel
Empress Helena alsoKnownAs Saint Helena
St. Helena, California namedAfter Saint Helena
St Helen’s Basilica dedicatedTo Saint Helena
St Helen’s Basilica namedAfter Saint Helena
Bishop of St Helena seeAlso Saint Helena
Drepanum renamedInHonorOf Saint Helena