[717] Migne, Patr. Lat., cxxiv. 374: “Via Lavicana S. Helenæ, matris Constantini imperatoris.” The place of her first burial was the present Torre Pignattara.
[718] [She appears, however, in the supplement to both the Breviary and Missal. Trans.]
[719] Marucchi, Nuovo Bull. di Arch. Christ., iv. 163, takes the opposite view.
[720] Vita Constant., 3, 25.
[721] Op. cit., cc. 26-28.
[722] Op. cit., cc. 33-40.
[723] Op. cit., cc. 42, 43.
[724] In this he says that wonderful things have taken place at the Lord’s sepulchre during his own life-time. In Constantine’s letter to Macarius also the references are expressed in general terms.
[725] Socrates, Hist. Eccl., i. 17. Sozomenus, 2, 1. Theodoret, i. 18. Theophanes, Chronogr., i., ad ann. m. 5817, Chr. 317. Chrysostom., In Joann., 84. Rufin., Hist. Eccl., i. 8. Sulpicius Sev., 2, 34.
[726] Epist. ad Severum, 21, 5.