Constantine the Great

Constantine | Christian Church | Santa Sabina | Pagan Temple

Christianity was a secretive underground religion until Constantine adopted this fledgling religion as the official Roman religion.

One of the most common uses of a Roman basilica was as a law court. The populace would mill about down here while the magistrate would sit up at the end, raised on a magisterial throne, sitting in a special rounded apse that signalled his importance.

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