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| Will of the blessed Emperor Constantine.
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Chapter XXX.—Will of the blessed Emperor
Constantine.
A year
and a few months afterwards442
the emperor was
taken ill at Nicomedia, a city of Bithynia, and, knowing the
uncertainty of human life, he received the holy rite of baptism443
| 443 At
the hand of Eusebius of Nicomedia. | , which he had intended to have deferred
until he could be baptized in the river Jordan.
He left as heirs of the imperial
throne his three sons, Constantine, Constantius, and Constans444
| 444 Vide
Pedigree, in the Prolegomena. Constantine II. received Gaul, Britain,
Spain, and a part of Africa: Constantius the East, and Constans
Illyricum, Italy, and the rest of Africa. In 340 Constans defeated his
brother, who was slain near Aquileia, and became master of the
West. | , the youngest.
He ordered that the great
Athanasius should return to Alexandria, and expressed this decision in the
presence of Eusebius, who did all he could to dissuade him. E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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