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City she reclaimed. >> helena is the person that takes jerusalem from a sleepy capital and turns it into a place we are all looking to for a spiritual message. >> for centuries devoted pilgrims have come here to mark their fate with a symbol now recognized the world over. >> at the time of jesus, a cross was a very negative image. it was a place of brutal horrible execution and death. after constantine and helena it becomes a contract with the transcendent. >> without the story of the discovery of the true cross helena would be just another but the story places her in the

Grandson. >> this must have been devastating for her. >> but the scandal is about to get bigger. >> constantine discovers from back channels that perhaps fausta had manufactured all of this, that she favored her own sons for the throne and that she set crispus up to be murdered. >> he orders that she be put in a bath chamber, the doors locked, and the fire stoked up to the point that it cooks her to death. >> as the self-proclaimed christian emperor, he's engaged

B.c., the roman empire has been ruled by pagans. then in 312 a.d., helena's son constantine has a dramatic change of faith. >> the story goes that on the eve of a great battle outside rome, he has a vision. >> he sees a cross of light in the sky and he hears a voice tell him, by this you will conquer. he takes it to mean by the symbol of the cross. by christianity, he's going to become the lone emperor, the supreme figure in the known world. >> he wins the battle and becomes the first christian emperor. >> christianity is very much a minority cult practice, probably no more than 10% of the emp...

Waterford cross arrived in ireland, she will continue her tour of the holy land. with the backing of her son, the emporor constantine she will transform the landscape. she builds churches on the side of christ's birth in beth leham and one to commonerate his last moment on earth. >> constantine made it legal to practice christianity. helena gave christians places to practice. before her arrival there were no christian buildings in this land. they met here to commemorate jesus assension but secretly met in caves. after helena christians can come

>> her influence upon her son, constantine, would change the fate of the roman empire and christianity. >> a decade after her death, her son constantine, now an old man, falls ill. after a lifetime of championing the cause of christianity he takes the final step and asks to be baptized. >> there was so much of constantine's life that did not lineup with being a christian. he was a violent man. but something i believe changed in the last year of his life. i think that he had a full conversion.