Галерий Август (два года правил один)

In Rome, XXIX Bishop Eusebius was appointed, who ruled for 7 months, after which XXX Bishop Miltiades ruled for 6 years. Maximin and Severus were made Caesars by Galerius Maximian. Constantius, in the sixteenth year of his reign, died in Britain in York, after which his son Constantine, born of the concubine Helen, seized power. And Constantine began to reign in the fourth year of persecution. We translate the chronicle of Eusebius according to Jerome’s account, starting only from the Nativity of Christ, bearing in mind theological and church-historical interest, which the previous part of the chronicle does not represent. On the same basis, we consider it possible to omit in the translation the chronological indication of the years from Abraham, according to the Olympiads and according to the years of the reign of the kings of Judah (before the destruction of Jerusalem) and limit ourselves to Christian chronology. Asterisks indicate testimony of dubious authenticity that is found in all lists of the chronicle according to the presentation of the bl. Jerome. Note Editorials. These testimonies, borrowed by Bl. Whether by Jerome, Eusebius, or other authors, perhaps hostile to Constantine, like Zosimus, are not accurate. Elena was not a concubine, but the legal wife of Constance, although she was of humble origin; and on the other hand, Constantine did not “seize power” (invadit regnum), but accepted it at the will of his father and with the consent of the army. You might be interested in: