{"id":118801,"date":"2023-02-11T11:17:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T10:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=118801"},"modified":"2023-02-11T11:17:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T10:17:25","slug":"constantine-good-as-christian","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/constantine-good-as-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Constantine &#8211; good as Christian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/konstantyn-wielki\/\"><b>Constantine the Great<\/b><\/a>, as he was officially the <span class=\"underlined\">first Christian emperor<\/span>, is seen today as a good ruler. It should be emphasized, however, that he had many lives on his conscience. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In Constantine&#8217;s biography, you can find the murders of members of the immediate family of the emperor. This is an extremely interesting list and would not be ashamed of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/tyberiusz\/\">Tiberius<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/cesarz-kaligula\/\">Caligula<\/a>: Maximian &#8211; father-in-law, Maxentius &#8211; wife&#8217;s brother, Licinius &#8211; sister&#8217;s husband, Crispus &#8211; son, Fausta &#8211; wife.<\/p>\n<p>It is not entirely clear why the emperor decided to kill his wife, but he chose an &#8220;interesting&#8221; death for her: Fausta was locked in a bathhouse and, constantly raising the temperature, she was boiled alive. The emperor ordered her name to be erased from all records &#8211; the so-called <em><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-law\/damnatio-memoriae\/\">damnatio memoriae<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If we add that the murderer was the first Christian emperor of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a>, recognized by the Orthodox Church as a saint, this fact is even more impressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40086,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-118801","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/118801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/118801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=118801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}