Labbe Constantin Classic Reprint

Author : Sydney F. Smith
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330910719
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Peace of Constantine (Classic Reprint) written by Sydney F. Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Peace of Constantine Ours is an age which loves to keep jubilees and centenaries, and, though the fashion is apt to run to excess, it is in itself to be encouraged. It is good on occasion to be reminded forcibly of some one or other of those past events which had an important significance for their own times and led on to far-reaching consequences. To one such event well worthy of celebration, the sixteenth centenary of which occurs this year, our attention has just been called by the Supreme Pontiff, who takes occasion to proclaim a universal jubilee to commemorate it. It is the Edict of Milan, of the spring of 313, by which the Emperor Constantine, fresh from his victory over the tyrant, Maxentius, at the Milvian Bridge, gave, in conjunction with his colleague Licinius, an assured legal position, for the first time in their history, to the adherents of the Christian religion. The precise nature of this jubilee - proclaimed by the Apostolic Letter, Magni faustique, of March 8, 1913 - and of the conditions under which it can be gained, is being notified by the Bishops in their several dioceses, and can be gathered from the reports in the Catholic press. But it is becoming that, at the head of this article, we should cite the brief passage in which Pius X. sets before the world the special feature in the historical event which he desires us to commemorate: Nothing [he says in his Apostolic Letter Magni faustique of March 8, 1913] could be more fitting and opportune than the celebration of the Edict promulgated at Milan by the Emperor Constantine the Great, following close upon the victory over Maxentius obtained under the glorious Standard of the Cross- the Edict which put an end to the cruel persecution of the Christians and placed them in possession of the liberty bought at the price of the Blood of the Divine Redeemer and the Martyrs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.