{"id":69807,"date":"2022-04-23T09:44:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T09:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/ardiast-costantino\/"},"modified":"2022-04-23T09:44:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T09:44:29","slug":"ardiast-costantino","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/an-island-a-continent\/ardiast-costantino\/","title":{"rendered":"ARDIA>ST. COSTANTINO&nbsp;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. COSTANTINO <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=10 vspace=3 src=\"http:\/\/www.sardiniapoint.it\/opsmedia\/jpg\/2028.jpg\" align=right><\/p>\n<p>Son of Costanzo Cloro and the future Saint Elena, Costantino is considered the first Christian Emperor.&nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><p>According to the legend, the night before&nbsp;the battle against Massenzio, Jesus appeared to him in dream&nbsp;and asked him to write the first two letters of his name (in Greek&nbsp; XP) on the shields of his soldiers. <\/p>\n<p>During the battle, Costantino&nbsp;had the vision of the cross with the words: &#8220;In hoc signo vinces&#8221; (&#8220;In this sign thou&nbsp;shall win&#8221;). <br \/>This episode marked the beginning of his conversion to&nbsp;Christianity:&nbsp; in&nbsp;313 A.D.,&nbsp;Costantino enacted an&nbsp;edict that granted freedom of worship to&nbsp;Christians. <\/p>\n<p>Although his canonization never took place, in Sardinia he is worshipped like a saint:&nbsp;his cult goes back, with no&nbsp;doubt,&nbsp;to the Byzantine domination in the island. <br \/>In dialect he is called Santu Antine.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p align=right>photo: G. Villani<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- SOURCE 1479.html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. COSTANTINO Son of Costanzo Cloro and the future Saint Elena, Costantino is considered the first Christian Emperor.&nbsp; &nbsp; According to the legend, the night before&nbsp;the battle against Massenzio, Jesus appeared to him in dream&nbsp;and asked him to write the first two letters of his name (in Greek&nbsp; XP) on the shields of his soldiers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":61320,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69807","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69807\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sardiniapoint.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}