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| The Founding of Constantinople by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) |
We commemorate a day holy in the annals of history indeed. For it was on the 11th May AD 330, the Feast of Saint Mocius, that the Emperor Constantine the Great consecrated the imperial city of Constantinople, Byzantium of old and bastion of Christendom new, as the Second Rome.
Almost six centuries after the banner of the Romans was furled over the Golden Horn, her spirit remains unbroken.
